Tag: Turkish map fold

Cecilia Sharpley has a turkish map fold book that, because of the way the folds work, is appropriately named “Kimono Book.” I really like the second, top shot. See all her books here.

Illustrator Carol Kearn’s butterfly pop-up book. Found here. The book is about 4-3/4″ x 4-3/4″ (12cm x 12cm). “There are a total of 18 pages. including 3 double-spreads which feature paper engineered ‘pop-ups’.” And she made an edition fo 50.

Northern California book artists Katherine Venturelli is visiting Santa Fe this month and last week she came by my studio for a visit. She contacted me because I did a post about her book Alchemic Calculations (below) last year.

I thought it was a turkish map fold, but it’s not (really this). Katherine does use the turkish map fold quite a bit in her work, and she brought some examples with her. On her website, she’s even labelled them! Here’s one called “Universe at Play.”

I love the hand drawn math calculations on one side and the prints of the cosmos on the other! And it was fun to talk with her about where we show our books, who we know in common, and especially to see her work in person.

Do check out her website for many more images.

This is a prototype for a kid-centric city guide. On the left, there’s a slot for loose pages or a small booklet. It looks like in the end they didn’t use the map fold on the left, but it seems like an interesting structure. Found here. The site for the finished guides is here

Yesterday I posted a picture of a book that I thought used several turkish map folds. But they aren’t. According to several people on my facebook page, it’s called an hungarian map fold. Since the picture I posted showed the opened fold, it was straight-forward to see how he’d made it. It’s sort of the turkish fold rotated. I made several and glued them together…. (directions for making the fold are here.)

But the best discovery is that they fit together very nicely. This picture shows 4 folds nested together. I made them out of square sheets that are 2″, 3″, 4″ and 5″.

Several years ago I posted a picture of this lovely book by Katherine Glover called Green Salad. I’ve wondered how it was made, but haven’t spent much time thinking about it. The nested hungarian map fold might be it.