Bookseller's description: Limited edition, one of 102 copies, all on Stardream cover and text and Arches cover stock, each signed and numbered by the 12 students and Professor Kitty Maryatt who designed and produced this delightful book, dedicated to Claire Van Vliet, who's inventive weaving techniques have "served as inspiration to challenge traditional book content and form." Page size: 7 x 7 inches; 98pp; including the woven interleaves. Bound by the students: tan paper wrappers with interweave of chestnut through dark brown onlay; chestnut label on spine printed in black, "NOUS TISSONS." Hand set and printed letterpress by the 12 students in various colors of ink in Arrighi and Centaur types, the narrative on the smaller interwoven leaves tells the story of the invention of the Jacquard loom. While the narrative links the story of Joseph Jacquard of Lyons, France, who began his working life as an apprentice to a book binder, to the beginnings of the modern industrial and information age (were the loom's punch cards the beginning of the computer age?), the students have told their own stories on the large pages that enfold the narrative. The narrative links weaving to books and to the industrial age while the students have linked weaving to the traditional roles of women - seen in nearly every culture - and all the ensuing repercussions. The woven interleavings are ingenious and even include an envelope and mock ups of the Jacquard punch cards that so revolutionized the textile industry. They are colorful: blue with silver gilt type, white with bronze type, bronze with black type, metallic white with pink type, etc. Some of the pages' interweaving is directly related to forms of the Arts and Crafts Movement, others are completely contemporary. In all, this is a wonderful book, full of surprises and provocative texts and images. At once naive and yet sophisticated, the book is a fitting homage to Claire Van Vliet and stands on its own as a fine example of contemporary book arts where text and form combine to present a concept.

Ref: GB/11301