A screen printed cover of Cut from a Bigger Cloth immediately gives you an idea about handcraft, patterns, dyeing. As the book is an introduction to a wide range of Addoley Dzege’s art practices, it contains a lot of different materials, which the book deals with in a very delicate and exciting way—there are a lot of different sections coming with different kind of paper, colors or printing technique, therefore helping to position the reader within the book. It also includes actual samples of screen printing and batik on cotton textiles allowing it to feel closer to the research of Addoley Dzege. As the publication continues the images grow in size from original family photos to large photos of the artist’s work. It is evident that a lot of attention, work and consideration were put in the design of the book, which becomes an informative and beautiful reflection of the artist’s ways of working and thinking with material.
Cut from a Bigger Cloth
Explorations in Batik, Dye, and Wax Print
Edition: 2023
Date of publication: August 2023
Language: English
Image editor: Lyndon Barrois Jr., Karoline Swiezynski
Photographer: Addoley Dzegede
Artist: Addoley Dzegede
Publisher: Limestone Books, Maastricht
Graphic designer: Karoline Swiezynski (Amsterdam)
Lithographer: Karoline Swiezynski, Amsterdam
Printer: AGALAB; PZI; repro.nl; DD-MC Digitale Druk; Drukkerij Kaboem, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Raalte
Binder: AGIA, Amsterdam
Size book block (w x h x d in mm): 200x270x9
Number of pages: 152
Print run: 150
Price: € 40
ISBN: 9789083361611
Font and foundry: Plantin Std
Binding style: Swiss binding, sewn half-automatic
Paper for interior (grammage): 280gsm Constellation Snow E/E 08 Tela Fina; 90gsm Clairefontaine Tropheé, white; 120gsm Clairefontaine Tropheé, Camel; 90gsm Bio Top 3; 135gsm MultiArt Digital, gloss; 120gsm Clairefontaine Tropheé, Intensive Lilac; 135gsm MultiArt Digital, silk; 55gsm Newspaper; 120gsm Clairefontaine Tropheé, Blue; 100gsm Arena Natrual Rough; 80gsm Clairefontaine Tropheé, Intensive Green;100gsm Fedrigoni Savile Row, Plain, Brown; 135gsm Color Copy, coated glossy, Fedrigoni, Clairefontaine
Material cover (grammage): 280gsm Constellation Snow, E/E 08 Tela Fina, Fedrigoni
Special features: Cover: screen-printing, AGALAB, Amsterdam; Interior: Grey Tones / CMYK: Canon dry toner printing, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam; CMYK: HP Indigo printing, DD-MC Digitale Afdruk, Raalte (Coordinated by Trudy Dorrepaal); Risograph printing in Blue, Burgundy, Sunflower, Black, by Terry Bleu, Amsterdam; CMYK: Xeikon dry toner printing, repro.nl, The Hague; 1 pms (Copper): ABdick offset printing, Drukkerij Kaboem, Amsterdam; Textile Samples - naturally dyed cotton swatches: Mordant printing (screen printed aluminum acetate) dyed with madder (meekrap) and weld (wouw) dyes, batik (with natural indigo dye), and direct printed natural dyes (logwood and pomegranate) screen printed on cotton. Made by Addoley Dzegede + Lyndon Barrois Jr. at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.