2000
Garment Register

COLOPHON

In Garment Register Harriet Bart further explores aspects of the commemorative, a theme that has been of major concern throughout her career. In this evocative book Harriet Bart commemorates the lives of generations of anonymous women at the heart of the fabric of modern America. Garment Register brings together pages of an old ledger with its entries of women's names and the dues they paid. Incorporated into the ledger pages are found photographs, vintage fabrics, and prose from women writers ranging from Martha Graham to Virginia Woolf; from Willa Cather to Nor Hall.

In a technical tour-de-force, the ledger pages were scanned and separated in Photoshop, then reassembled for printing of the red and blue rules by letterpress – a technique that preserved the steel-nibbed pen writing of the original ledger pages, which were then printed from magnesium plates.

The book is twelve inches high by ten inches wide and contains eighteen spreads, fifteen that are ledger pages – printed three-color throughout – and all with accompanying photographs and swatches of fabric.

The paper is Rives BFK (280 gm warm white): the type is Univers Light Italic.The book was designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Housed in a clamshell box, it employs the wire-edge binding devised by Daniel Kelm. The entire edition was executed by Jill Jevne. Published by Mnemonic Press in an edition of twenty-five copies press numbered 1 - 25. Five artists proofs lettered A-E.