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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. |
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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.
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Triangle
shaped books with inverted covers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Another
selection of stab bindings at the book fair in Atocha.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Josefina
Flores with her book open to a page that shows women working the minerals
outside the mine.
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