Cristina Montejo

I was all set to post a tutorial about one of the techniques I learned at the Basic Book Repair workshop I recently attended at Hollander’s – tipping in loose pages – when I came across a tutorial on the same subject on The Book Arts Web. The pictures in The Book Arts Web [...]

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I’ve always been drawn to Book and Paper Conservation as a career, given my science background and passion for books and works on paper. Now that I’ve landed so close to Ann Arbor, the book publishing capitol of the US with a strong german bookbinding tradition and two book conservation labs to [...]

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Here’s the final book I made for my book arts class at the Corcoran – another variation of the flag book but this time filled with my own illustrations. I’m extra proud of this book because I made all of the inside paper myself during my paper making class at MICA. We soaked the kozo [...]

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While doing some research on flag books, I came across this invaluable article on the subject – All Shook Up: Interplay of Image and Text in the Flag Book Structure – in an old issue of The Bonefolder. It was written by Karen Hanmer, an amazing book artist and flag book expert, and goes into all [...]

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The long-stitch is a non-adhesive bookbinding where signatures are sewn on through slits cut into the spine of the book. You can find directions on this and other types of non-adhesive bindings in Keith Smith’s series of how-to books for the beginning and advanced bookbinding student.
I had no idea the Corcoran would be [...]

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Here are some pics of the piano hinge book I made for my Advanced Book Arts course this summer. During the last two weeks of June, I was finally able to resume work on the second half of structures from last spring’s course, which I had to drop out of because of my hand. It [...]

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It seems I’ve had just about enough of everything lately, so I’ve been spending a lot of time daydreaming about ways to get away from it all this summer. Going to a peaceful place and getting some art done is my dream right now and so I’ve been toying with the idea of applying to [...]

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My perfect binding (meaning no sewing whatsoever, only glue to hold it together) blank book is finally done!

I’m so happy that I was able to use some of the paste paper I made a couple of weeks back for the covers. The mountain imagery of the decorative Japanese paper on my clamshell box is echoed [...]

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My first assignment for my advanced book arts class – making a clamshell box – is done and this week we moved on to the next step: making paste papers which will eventually become covers for a perfect bound book we’ll be making to fit inside the box. I’ve posted a few pics of the [...]

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