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Fashioning

Denise Bookwalter
Lee Emma Running


Pages: unpaged
Size: Box = 500 x 250 x 87mm
Binding: Fan-structure with brown leather covers with handles.
Language: English
Edition: #6/32


Place publication: Tallahassee, FL
Publisher: Small Craft Advisory Press, Florida State University

Additional notes:
Clothing retains the story of the wearer.

The artists capture personally significant garments in direct crayon rubbings.. The drawn marks reveal the garments' embellishments and structure and physically capture a moment in the life of the textile. Each garment contains evidence of the hands that made it and the bodies that wore it. The drawings were transferred to letterpress printing plates, printed in white ink, resit dyed and waxed to become the pages of a book structure the reader wears. Fashioning is a tactile experience embedded in paper and encased in leather. to read the book please put your hands into the cover handles and open your arms.

Reference note:
Fashioning is the second book collaboration between Denise Bookwalter and Lee Emma Running. Their first artist book, Lining, investigates the intimate relationship of textiles next to the skin. In Fashioning the artists continue their work with their intimate relationship with clothing. Clothing retains the story of the wearer. In Fashioning the artists capture their relationship with clothing by making rubbings of embellishments found on personally significant garments. The drawings directly capture a moment in the life of the textile. The textile contains its own evidence of the hands that made it and the bodies that wore it. Each of the rubbings were transferred to letterpress printing plates, printed in white, resit dyed, and waxed to create a book structure that becomes a book the reader wears. Fashioning is a tactile experience embedded in cloth and paper.

Ref: GB/30536







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