PAPER CRAFTERS (SEP/OCT 94) (503) 223-0167 REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION HOW-TO-PROJECT: A Tunnel Book by Edward H. Hutchine Titeawathon 2 Books are often a pile of pages between two covers. Bound Fogether none side, they open and you read the pagea But aye a bo0t with 6 bound slong ino opposite deo, How cou you read? How oud you unlock the meveage within? If t's a tunnel book, the answer is eaey. Youd pall the pages apart on their side hinges and look through holes cut through the center of the pages. Tunnel books, derived from the traveling peep shows of the last certury, hold interesting and challenging design opportunities. Carol Barton, who teaches tunnel book classes, hhas created many iierseif. In Everyday Road Signe, the ‘side hinges are placed top and bottom oo the bottom hinges open up to become a highway. In Lois Morrison’ book, My Garden from Weeding Height, you rot only look through a tangle of vegetation, but the flowers continue to angle off the sideo oF the panels. The largest tunnel book | have ie Octopus by Elizabeth McDeutta and Julie Chen. tt is 1O-IZ" x V2" ard opens a whopping 30". By contrast, the smallest 15 A Peep-Show Alice by Maryline Poole Adams, A set of two] tunnel books based on Alice's adventures, each measures 37 241/47 In A Maze In Mystery, you look through a garden gate and manewer the side hinges back and forth 0 look around and over hedges to solve a murder mystery In one of my tunnel books, Grandma's Closet, 1 look through a keyhole reveals treasures that grandma hhas collected over the years, Recently | did Tunnel of Love, where the text jumps from panel to panel ao you look through a galaxy of hearts. Here is a pattern and instructions for making @ tunnel book from just one sheet of paper. There are a couple of ways to do this, but this way has some advantages. i's printed on only one side and it creates panels that are double thick (stronger) and side hinges ‘that are single thick (flexible). Also, since the pattern is long and thin, you can fit two on a sheet. | paired a view out a window on the same sheet with a view in a window. Pyramia Atlante W Wasnngten, DC Mutchine a Wt wes colege degree nho has been» Cert cow, act soe’ ooctecper. coda eh grapnc arta and poet" Wrte hn at Eaton 78 oer 8S Cana 12a R-FRONT A-BACK B-FRONT —_B-BACK Page 2 In laying eu the tunnel bok, use wo big a plece of as posable Ledger paper (it x1) worko wel but & Toler butcher paper io eve better Te model href for @ fourparel tunre book Each panel hao arort de that you tee a aback frame that fede behind ards gues tot for Strength, Mong each dels strip of hinges ar tabs When your boot e degre score al of he fl ard ve cart ating the cute Where a fare foie back ened a pana you ct rom the panel across the hrge tra tab on each ode, Between panes, you ext from one Zap al the way acroos tothe opposite tab. Do net cot trou the tabs heres betneen trem To sosentle yout boot valey fold the hinge strips en each ade to tne center Then mourtan fold the tab Slope pack tothe ovtades. Se llustration 1 Start withthe front pane, Mountam fod the back ranforeng ame behind. Valey fd the connecting fate go that the nox pane (B) knee up Behind the front Cover Continue fang the renforeng frames behind ad fhe connecting ta up. See luotration 2 ‘etaish te boo, ue the renforcing panels in piace and the comecting tabs together The finshed Pook fico ie Iluetration 8 vepcx C-FRONT — C-BACK = D-FRONT