#Dard hunter

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Book cover

Dard Hunter. c.1900.

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Marbled Monday

This lovely sandy or striated-rock-like marbling is part of the binding of the book Culs de Lampe by the Gehenna Press, a fine arts press founded by American artist and graphic designer Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) in 1942. This book was published by the press in 1968. The paper is Nideggen and Fabriano blue and white and master printer Harold McGrath (1922-2000), who also printed for Barry Moser's Pennyroyal Press, was the printer.

The book consists of a series of culs-de-lampe, a subset of tailpieces that take a particular shape reminiscent of the bottom of a lamp (hence the name). These designs are often used at the bottom of pages or ends of sections or chapters of a book. Those seen here are printed in black, blue, green, and red and range in date from 1564-1680.

The marbled paper is a large nonpareil pattern. You can still see the underlying zig-zag or gel-git pattern that is the foundation of the nonpareil pattern (and most combed patterns). The colors are earthy browns and greys and remind me of sand or a cross-section of sedimentary rock. The binding was done by Gray Parrot, who has also bound editions for the likes of Dard Hunter's Mountain House Press and Henry Morris' Bird & Bull Press.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Dard Hunter Poppy - Stone

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Today's MFC Figure Addition round-up

Some Monster Hunter and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei figures by Over Dard. All of these were scanned from Figure Maniacs 46 (July 2012).

First, I know NOTHING about Monster Hunter. This is no exaggeration lol, so translating these names and working out what to call them was really hard. If anyone has any corrections please let me know.

Hunter (Zinogre Armor Female Blademaster ver.) Garage Kit by Over Dard, from Monster Hunter Portable 3rd

Hunter (Silver Sol Armor Male Blademaster ver.) Garage Kit by Over Dard, from Monster Hunter Portable 3rd

Hunter (Rathalos Armor Female Blademaster ver.) Garage Kit by Over Dard, from Monster Hunter Portable 3rd

Hunter (Tigrex Armor Female Blademaster ver.) Garage Kit by Over Dard, from Monster Hunter Portable 3rd

I also had to scan some Sayonara Setsubou Sensei figures. I couldn't find painted pictures of these online anywhere... So I hope the scans aren't too bad.

These two are really cute, I might clean the scans up and make their own post later. They come as a set, apparently.

Meru Otonashi and Maria Taro Sekitsu Garage Kits by Over Dard, from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

This one is really cute. There's not many figures of her at all.

Kiri Komori Garage Kit by Over Dard, from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

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all i’m saying is, if dard hunter was able to make his own book completely by himself, from writing to paper making to print setting to binding, i’m sure a couple of scrappy tumblr artists could pull it off.

genuinely wondering how some people on here haven't started their own publishing company. It's not like we don't have the skills. The amount of bookbinders, proofreaders and artists on here could rule the publishing world if they had the right motivation.

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Literary history that happened on 29 November

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Unfortunately, the research I did was mostly through the internet, and TKP is actually a aesop esque fable about imposter syndrome (I'm working on a series of short stories about kudzu and kozo as a sort of historically based metaphors of being a Southern queer transplant to Philly). But this Smithsonian article is a good introduction to the history of kudzu in the US. And as for Dard Hunter and the tightrope he walked between documenting papermaking and just like. Racism, I'd suggest actually starting here and looking into the books he wrote. It's a true font of knowledge that modern day papermakers still use to this day.

Annoyingly, I can't find my notes from my papermaking class about paper mulberry. I know mulberry trees have been brought over a handful of times for different reasons --- they'd feed the leaves to silkworms! --- including the Orientalist decorative shade trees reasons, but The Tree in Bartram Garden is v specifically planted by someone involved in papermaking. Not Bartram; he was alive during colonial times.

Oh, and the Dard Hunter story about Japan: the papermakers he was studying under lived in simple homes without glass in the windows, so he assumed they were very poor. When his time with them was ending, they asked what he'd like as a parting gift. Not wanting to put them out too much, he asked for seeds from their trees so he might plant them in the US.

Now, a few things to note. We already know that Japan has some level of xenophobia in modernity, so of course it existed back in Hunter's time too. In addition, the Japanese were and are very secretive about their particular processes of creating paper. Hunter wasn't allowed to see every single step even though these craftsmen knew he was documenting the process for posterity. Finally, while we generally do well with "paper mulberry" or kozo paper in the US, there is a ton of variation in East Asia, with different papermakers using long cultivated gardens for their paper.

So, Hunter is being a bit of an ass all the way through. And the papermakers had the perfect response: they created a beautiful wooden box with two compartments filled with seeds. The seeds had been boiled past the point of germination.

If I remember right, he actually wrote this in one of the books I read for papermaking. It's still my favorite story and I'm glad he included it.

But uh, to get back on track, for kudzu at least, I found starting with Wikipedia and following the sources as well as looking at the Smithsonian website was a good starting point and you can really go down the historical rabbit hole if you live near a historical society (like I do. I also have access to the Library Company, which is the oldest library in the US, older than the US).

This hasn't been very helpful sorry. I have such specific knowledge on two invasive, East Asian plants and not much for general invasive species or how to research more in depth in a general sense.

this is such an excellent example of what Orientalism looks like it's unreal

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Books On Books Collection - Gerard Unger

Books On Books Collection – Gerard Unger

A Counter-proposal (1967) Een tegenvoorstel/A counter-proposal/Une contreproposition/Ein gegenvorschlag (1967)Gerard UngerPamphlet. 250 x 250 mm, 4 pages. Acquired from Antiquariaat Frans Melk, 27 April 2021.Photos: Books On Books Collection. A few months after Pieter Brattinga issued Wim Crouwel‘s New Alphabet (below left), he followed up with this single-fold riposte from Gerard Unger,…

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Song: Saale Darde Aa (2021) - Hunter D Music: Sembhy K, Lyrics: Pardeep Malak Singer & Composer : Hunter D

-- Saale Darde aa | (Official Video) | Hunter D | Love Gill | Pardeep Malak | New Punjabi Songs 2021 (via Jass Records)

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Decorative Sunday: Paste Paper Edition

In 1942, Harvard University Press printed 250 copies of Decorated Book Papers: Being an Account of the Designs and Fashions by the bookbinder, author, and creator and collector of decorative papers, Rosamond Bowditch Loring. Published by the Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 234 sale copies of the first edition sold out within months, despite the “then considerable price of ten dollars” and the economic stressors of the war. In addition to eight plates reproducing examples of 18th century decorative papers, the first edition includes twenty-five samples tipped in, many of which are from the author’s own extensive collection. 

While Loring collected a variety of a decorative papers, the examples shown here are from the chapter on paste papers, Loring’s area of creative specialization. The sample papers included in this chapter are all Loring’s own work, or that of her student, Veronica Ruzicka, who bound the first edition (it is worthy to note that Ruzicka is the daughter of illustrator, wood engraver, and type designer Rudolph Ruzicka, whose work we have highlighted several times). Ruzicka also contributed an essay when a second edition of the book was finally published by Harvard University Press in 1952, along with Dard Hunter and Walter Muir Whitehall. 

Rosamond Loring (May 2, 1889 – September 17, 1950) studied book binding under Mary Crease Sears at the Sears School of Bookbinding in Boston. Sears, about a decade older than Loring, had had to battle to learn the trade; women were barred from the Bookbinders Union but most commercial binderies were happy to hire women for particular tasks, such as sewing sheets, but maintained a strict separation of roles, preventing employees from learning the whole binding process from start to finish. Eventually, Ms. Sears secured an apprenticeship in France to complete her studies and opened her binding school in Boston shortly after, training several generations of women binders. While studying under Sears, Loring became frustrated with the lack of options for quality endpapers and became determined to make her own, which she sold to other binders at Ms. Sears’s studio. Her first major commercial commission was for the Houghton Mifflin publication of The Antigone of Sophocles, translated by John J. Chapman (Boston, 1930).

Our copy of Decorated Book Papers is a gift of Dick Schoen. 

-Olivia Hickner, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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#MiniatureMonday

Dard Hunter : miscellaneous thoughts and reflections / compiled by Robert E. Massmann

William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (November 29, 1883 – February 20, 1966) was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand. He is often credited as one of the influences in the resurgence in fine hand papermaking as a craft and an art form in the United States. That legacy can be felt on our campus with the continued tradition of hand papermaking at the Center for the Book.

Today's item includes many interesting elements, including two books, and a 3-D model of Hunters paper mill at Lime Rock, both made in part using paper that was made at the mill.

"Two-volume set of shaped books: volume 1 is shaped like the front of Hunter's mill at Lime Rock with leatherette spine and hand-colored pictorial label. Volume 2 is round to resemble a millstone in two sections, with common spine and printed label, and samples of paper made by hand at the mill.

Both of the volumes sewn by hand. Boards covered with and pages made of handmade Hunter paper. Printed pages in both volumes tipped onto the handmade leaves.

Slipcase for the set is a full 3-dimensional model of Hunter's mill at Lime Rock. It is also covered with the same handmade paper from the last lot produced at the mill at Lime Rock. Hand-colored and detailed.

Paper label on model has text: "Dard Hunter [D]oll [H]ouse. Model of Dard Hunter's paper mill at Lime Rock, Connecticut; covered with handmade paper, unfinished from the last lot produced at the mill. It was purchased in 1928, and closed in 1931. In 1955 it was completely destroyed by a flood." --Catalog

Read more about Dard Hunter.

Library copy signed by Robert E. Massmann. --Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student

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Dard Hunter’s Rose stitched by sam-salamander.

“Self-drafted. My mother has loved Dard Hunter’s work for decades and I was lucky enough to grow up with it. For Mother’s Day I decided to do my take on his rose style. The rose head is directly based on his ceramic rose series and the stem and leaves are my addition based on his style.”

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Roycroft ceiling sconce designed by Dard Hunter

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🎶  I can show you the world…. of papermaking. 🎶

Check out Papermaking; the history and technique of an ancient craft, by Dard Hunter.