Thirty-three Beads on a String

Description:	Shlah, Zaid (author)Ingalls, Cyndi (printer); Original Broadside: Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at the FAU Libraries Letterpress.This broadside is from the collection of a historic suite of hand-printed literary broadsides which are a part of the Al-Mutannabi Street Starts Here broadside project at the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at the FAU Libraries. Thirty-three Beads on a String, by Zaid Shlah, is at once moving and absorbing. Visually, the poem’s theme presented a solution in illustrative layout: a string of beads. I printed each stanza as its own “bead,” circling in toward the center and the final “click.” The process required re-registration for each stanza; I was able to produce about five beads a day. The beauty of the project became the wonderfully repetitive slap of the platen and depth of meaning as each stanza was strung onto the string. I chose a deep blue for the string of beads, and gold for the titling work.
Origin:	2006
Created By:	Shlah, Zaid; Ingalls, Cyndi
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Publisher:	Eidolon Press (Crested Butte, Colorado)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/51
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	broadsides letterpress printing art

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