Binding ties

Title
  1. Binding ties / Angela Lorenz.
Published by
  1. Bologna : Sintesi edizioni, 1997.
Author
  1. Lorenz, Angela.

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FormatTextAccessBy appointment onlyCall numberSpencer Coll. Ital. 1997 12-174Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Additional authors
  1. Sintesi edizioni. pbl
Description
  1. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.; 30 x 10 cm. in envelope 42 x 13 cm.
Summary
  1. Consists of a double strip with 6 necktie-shaped panels on each side, folded accordion-style; flaps at beginning and end bear white paper labels with title, artist's name and colophon. Panels are separated with handmade staples made from pinstriped coated copper wire. Strips of braided raffia are inserted at first and last folds, extended at top to serve as ties when the book is worn as a garment.
Subject
  1. Shaped books (Publishing)
  2. Neckties > Pictorial works
  3. Rubber stamp printing > Specimens
  4. Mechanical works
  5. Lorenz, Angela
  6. Typefaces (Type evidence) > New Caledonia
  7. Toy and movable books > Specimens
  8. Great Britain > Colonies > Commerce > Pictorial works
  9. Artists' books > Italy > 20th century
  10. Great Britain > Colonies > Commerce > Poetry
Genre/Form
  1. Artists' books – Italy – 20th century.
  2. Shaped books (Publishing)
  3. Mechanical works.
  4. Typefaces (Type evidence) – New Caledonia.
Call number
  1. Spencer Coll. Ital. 1997 12-174
Note
  1. Edition of 30 copies.
  2. Title page information from labels on front and back of volume.
  3. "This book presents six vignettes ... in the history of international trade across six continents ... The structure... represent[s] a combination of Western businessman and indigenous inhabitant. The poems are hidden within six silkscreened and die-cut regimental ties [i.e. images of neckties on a double strip of black paper], from regiments sent to colonial territories of Britain ... Only the word "pull" is visible at the top of each tie. When the white interlining [i.e. a sheet of white paper containing the letterpress] is pulled up slightly from its armature, the words ... appear. The reverse side ... shows four die-cut rectangles in the shape of tie labels. Once again, the interlining ... shows through, this time displaying four words: rubber, silk, cotton, and copper ... But when the interlinings are pulled up again, they form the colophon ... "Rubber stamp and" "silk screen on" "cotton rag paper with" "copper wire and raffia binding" ... The rubber stamp text is printed in the typeface New Caledonia ... The ties on the ends [lack] die cuts [and] mimic patterns for customers of made-to-measure ties, with the signature of the artist in place of the name of the tie customer at right, and the number in the edition in place of the tie width at left ... The back of each blade [tie] is silkscreened with ... Prussian blue ink ... The "seam" is printed with the same ink and perforated by hand with a tailor's sewing wheel used to mark patterns. The herringbone patterned paper is ... titled "tweed" in the Savile Row line of paper ... produced in ... 1997 by Cartiere Fedrigoni ... made from recycled scraps from the garment trade as well as new fibers ... The book may be worn as [an apron] with raffia "ties" to secure it around the waist, or may be tied around the crown of the head ... The case is structurally based on the envelopes in which ties are sold in Italy, with a raffia braid in place of a ribbon tie. Most of the imagery was drawn from the 1942 Parker Brothers "South American Trading Game" found at an antique store in Maine in 1990 ... The vertical lines of the Fedrigoni pinstripe paper serve as the longitude lines on the world map, while suggesting a business suit at the same time. An original silk tie sample collected by the artist from the tie manufacturer P.L. Sells in East London is glued inside each top flap, with 15 different regiments represented, all from former colonies"--Artist's Web site, viewed Sept. 21, 2012: http://www.angelalorenzartistsbooks.com/opere/binding.htm
Binding (note)
  1. Housed in an illustrated envelope of black decorative paper with dark gray pinstripes, printed in gold; necktie fabric sample mounted inside top flap. With braided raffia strip securing the flap.
Author
  1. Lorenz, Angela.
Title
  1. Binding ties / Angela Lorenz.
Imprint
  1. Bologna : Sintesi edizioni, 1997.
Local note
  1. Spencer Coll. copy is no. 24/30; signed by Lorenz.
Binding
  1. Housed in an illustrated envelope of black decorative paper with dark gray pinstripes, printed in gold; necktie fabric sample mounted inside top flap. With braided raffia strip securing the flap.
Place of publication
  1. Italy Bologna.
Added author
  1. Sintesi edizioni. Publisher
Research call number
  1. Spencer Coll. Ital. 1997 12-174
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