Prepared bast fibers into a small sheet ↗
How do fiber amount and joining of overlaps affect continuity and flexibility?
200 minutes active estimate · 24 students
Teacher notesCodices Atlas / classroom investigations
Make a book.
Examine the evidence.
Eleven bookmaking, printing and document investigations connect material work to the histories of Maya, Mixtec and Nahua books, colonial printing and living makers.
Modern classroom adaptations · Untested procedures. These are research-derived plans. Teachers must pilot the actual method and materials before use. Cultural specificity, source limits and adaptations remain part of each lab.
11 labs
Paper and prepared surfaces
Six-panel fallback and modern ground comparison ↗
What does alternating folding change, and how does a modern white coating affect a sample surface?
100 minutes active estimate · 24 students
Teacher notesFolds, reading and copies
Eight-panel research screenfold ↗
What changes when information can be seen as both an extended strip and a compact book?
100 minutes active estimate · 30 students
Teacher notesEvidence-backed reading routes ↗
How can a reader tell where to go, and what evidence is needed before deciding what a sign means?
50 minutes active estimate · 30 students
Teacher notesSurface, color and limits of looking ↗
Can visible color alone tell us what paint is made from, and what do support and application change?
70–95 minutes active estimate · 30 students
Teacher notesFacsimile and copy-chain evidence ↗
What can change between an object, painted copy, printed facsimile, scan, and screen?
50 minutes active estimate · 30 students
Teacher notesRelief, type and intaglio
Foam relief and reversal ↗
Which surface transfers ink, which marks stay light, and how does direct printing reverse an image?
100 minutes active estimate · 24 students
Teacher notesMovable letters, proofreading and translation ↗
What can mechanical reproduction copy, and what requires proofreading or language knowledge?
100 minutes active estimate · 24 students
Teacher notesPlastic drypoint and intaglio comparison ↗
How can a scratched recessed line transfer dark ink, and how does this differ from relief, burin engraving, and etching?
200 minutes active estimate · 24 students
Teacher notesEvidence and authorship
Evidence-sheet accounting ↗
How do quantities, categories, context, and visible revisions change a document’s evidentiary use?
55 minutes active estimate · 24 students
Teacher notesThree accounts of one object ↗
How can observation, image and interpretation retain different information and authorship?
60–80 minutes active estimate · 24 students
Teacher notesNo labs match. Try a material such as paper, foam or ink.