Scroll creation

Greetings all,

I am sending this to multiple lists so I appologize in advance for any
multiple posts.

I have recently commissioned a friend of mine who is a Shodou student to
do some Kanji work for me. However, she does not know how to construct the
scrolls once the work has been done on the rice paper. Does anyone on here
know how to properly construct a scroll? Any assistance that you can offer
will be muchly appreciated.


Peace,

Matt

> From: "M. R. Williams"
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I am sending this to multiple lists so I appologize in advance for any
> multiple posts.
>
> I have recently commissioned a friend of mine who is a Shodou student to
> do some Kanji work for me. However, she does not know how to construct the
> scrolls once the work has been done on the rice paper. Does anyone on here
> know how to properly construct a scroll? Any assistance that you can offer
> will be muchly appreciated.

I've only made one, it was not a great job. That was no fault of the teacher who was an expert. It's not something you will probably get right the first time. You can get them mounted in the US probably for $100-200 each. So if the work is valuable or a gift you probably want to pay a pro or practice several times with it before mounting them. I'm away from my books for a few days so I can't give really good references now. Some stores listed here though:

http://home.comcast.net/~ronin_engineer/sumi.html

I'm also experimenting with unconventional mounting methods that use iron activated interfacing material found in fabric stores. It's a lot less messy and tedious than the conventional wet mounting methods and irons are used in traditional Japanese bookmaking so it might last a while. I have not developed the procedure fully yet.

Jim Eckman

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HI

I would suggest these links

japanese book binding (shows several styles of book
binding as well as how tomake scrolls and the boxes
for the scrolls - greta book I have it)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0834801965/102-4582791-9751358?v=glance

book binding
http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/graeme/bookart2/introduction.html

http://www.sff.net/people/Brook.West/bind/bindit.html

http://freespace.virgin.net/beaux-arts.bindings/tutorial.html

loads more here at yahoo - have fun
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=japanese+book+binding

paul




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> From: "M. R. Williams"
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I am sending this to multiple lists so I appologize

in advance for any

> multiple posts.
>
> I have recently commissioned a friend of mine who is

a Shodou student to

> do some Kanji work for me. However, she does not

know how to construct the

> scrolls once the work has been done on the rice

paper. Does anyone on here

> know how to properly construct a scroll? Any

assistance that you can offer

> will be muchly appreciated.

I've only made one, it was not a great job. That was
no fault of the teacher who was an expert. It's not
something you will probably get right the first time.
You can get them mounted in the US probably for
$100-200 each. So if the work is valuable or a gift
you probably want to pay a pro or practice several
times with it before mounting them. I'm away from my
books for a few days so I can't give really good
references now. Some stores listed here though:

http://home.comcast.net/~ronin_engineer/sumi.html

I'm also experimenting with unconventional mounting
methods that use iron activated interfacing material
found in fabric stores. It's a lot less messy and
tedious than the conventional wet mounting methods and
irons are used in traditional Japanese bookmaking so
it might last a while. I have not developed the
procedure fully yet.

Jim Eckman

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



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