Creating Decorative Tapes for Exposed Spines with Jamie Thome
In this second video of our new Artists Book House Tutorials series, artist and ABH Board Member Jamie Thome demonstrates how to make your own decorative tapes for exposed spine structures.
Supplies List
Basic hand skills and a desire to customize your books
Decorative paper
PVA or wheat or rice paste for gluing
Crash (also known as super or mull) OR Tyvek
X-Acto knife
Pencil
Ruler
Bone folder
Spatula if desired
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About Jamie Thome
Jamie Thome received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. She spent a year in the mentorship program for emerging women artists at Artemisia Gallery in Chicago. Her visual arts work has been shown all over the place; she works primarily with books, collages, installations, and layering oil pastels on top of things. Thome was a founding member of the now-defunct Vespine Gallery in Pilsen.
As a teaching artist, Jamie Thome visits the public schools to integrate the arts into the classroom curriculum and works at the Evanston Public Library as a teaching artist in the Loft (teen space), and a library assistant wherever she is needed. In her ‘spare’ time, she coaches beginning and experienced runners to complete marathons and half marathons, reads as many books as possible, and loves to hang out with her husband Doug and her son Oliver Bean and their dogs, Rosie and Phoebe.