The Books

Books Made & Repaired
PILOT PROJECT "HANDMADE BOOKS:
Expression, Repair and Economic Alternative"
2003-2005
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Japanese Stab Bindings-a selection of photos from the hundreds of books made.

	In all the workshops, we have encouraged the women to use materials that can be found in their districts. This is no small challenge considering that only Atocha has a stationary store. The pink, blue, yellow, & pale green covers you see repeated are the only card stock that can be found. The participants have also re-used and recycled many materials from their homes. In the 2 books here you can see how the ladies of Sagrario came up with the idea of using plastic for the covers. Thus the illustrations on the first page can be seen through the covers.
	Despite the limitaton of materials available, the participants find infinite ways to elaborate their bindings. Here is a book shaped as a house, complete with wiindows. A book with a cardboard cover. And the two smaller books are 2 facing pamphlet bindings in one cover.
	Triangle shaped books with inverted covers.
	Not only did they come up with their own materials, their own unique stab binding patterns, but the ladies from Fierro Uno showed up to the second binding workshops with their own binding tools. The hole-puncher on the right is made out of the big safety pins they use to keep their shawls over their shoulders.
	The top colorful book is a repaired school text. The other colorful cover, along with the two blue covers, are books made with re-used covers. Also notice the original binding patterns in the lower left corner.
	A variety of stab bindings on display at the book show they organized in Atocha on September 26, 2004. Decorated covers, quality bindings, unique book forms. A book of medicinal herbs. An invitiation to graduation. Some mothers re-bound their children's school work to save it for memory's sake.
	From Tatasi, a book shaped like a squash and like an apple. The two standing books are from Sagrario, showing the mountain they live and work on.
	Another selection of stab bindings at the book fair in Atocha.
	Irma and Antonia from Atocha gave a bookbinding course at the highschool a couple months ago. This is one of the books their students made and decorated.
	Maura gave a bookbinding course to neighbors in Fierro Uno. They re-used card-stock for the covers. And each of her students drew a self portrait on the first page of their book.
	Josefina Flores from Sagrario showed up to the third workshop in September 2004 with this book that illustrates their days as miners in Sagrario, on the mountain of Chorolque. She illustrated, wrote and bound her own life experience.
	Josefina Flores with her book open to a page that shows women working the minerals outside the mine.

Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DANIDA
Danish Environmental Cooperation Program
Component 4-Bolivia WOMEN MINERS PLAN

	The participants learned how to repair paper back books. Here are a series of dictionaries, school books, novels, teacher's guides in Spanish and in Quechua, cook books, guide books, poetry books etc.
	School books repaired by the participants in Tasna Retiro.
	Marina from Sagrario invented a plastic cover combined with a stab binding for her medicinal herb book. (Bottom left.)
	A repaired Atlas and a bound collection of knitting patterns done by Cleofe Oña from Tasna Rosario.

	Accordion Bindings with elaborate page forms and recessed folds. An Exercise in cutting, measuring and math.
	A very small sampling the accordion and pamphlet bindings on display at the book show. A myriad of designs and constructions.
	Accordion Books. Using a simple binding structure, they created their own elaborate editions. "A Contar!"--A counting book for children. "The Scream"--A book that shouts.
	Leonarda's Shouting Book.
	Maria Callata's Pamphlet Book. Complete with a pocket in the middle to hold loose ideas.







Betty Romero--Atocha	Maura Auza--Fierro Uno	Cleofe Oña--Tasna Rosario
	Edith Gutierrez--Atocha