Book uses colored thread between pages to make hyperlinks

Maria Fischer's "Traumgedanken" book is a collection of "literary, philosophical, psychological and scientifical texts" about dreams. The book uses threads pierced through the pages and affixed to other pages to make physical hyperlinks between ideas.

On five pages there are illustrations made out of thread. Their shape and colour relies on the key words on the opposite page. This way an abstract image of the dream about dreaming is generated.
In addition there are five pages where a significant excerpt from a text of the opposite page is stitched into the paper. It is not legible because the type's actual surface is inside the folded page. This expresses the mysteriousness of dreams and the aspect of dream interpretation.

Traumgedanken (Thanks, Michael Chabon!)

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gravytop

Hilarious and gorgeous.
Anonymous

C’mon, folks:

Why hyperlink electronically, when you can do it with thread?

Throw out that DRM-ridden iPad.

Embrace your Selectric, Singer, needle, and bobbin!
Nadreck

Reminds me of a number of SF aliens who use strings for their books.
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  Those alien string books are all based on the Inca quipu (also spelled khipu). They may or may not have been a full writing system, we’re not sure yet, but they could at least function as a sort of ledger.
Anonymous

Pretty sure I remember boingboing writing up an article on an interesting similar idea, but done in comic form, called Meanwhile ( http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Pick-Path-Story-Possibilities/dp/0810984237/ ), but I’m never able to find anything on here… too much noise-to-signal I guess, not that that’s always a bad thing =)
Anonymous

This was already done more efficiently, and without thread over a thousand years ago. It’s called the Talmud
Anonymous

Oh, that’s cool!

I made a book by hand-stamping 4″X4″ copper plates, then adding patina, sealing them in Krylon clearcoat, and mounting them on art paper, then binding them with two steel plates and two-way screws.

I’m toying with the idea of making a steampunk hyperfiction using copper plumbing, hand-stamping the story onto copper plates, and mounting them with clamps that allow users to move the plates to new locations among the copper pipes.

– Jonathan Lyons
polintr

Reminds me of Biz Stone’s metaphor for blogs & the world wide web in the opening chapter of Biz’s “Who Let the Blogs Out?” It tells of a library of books that are connected to threads, like hyperlinks lead to related content on blogs. Google Books has the text (it’s page 7-9).
spejic

James Burke (of “Connections” fame) had page-number hyperlinks in his book “The Pinball Effect”.
baccaruda

Mark Danielewski, eat your heart out.
Anonymous

Very similar to a project by Dan Collier http://dancollier.co.uk/work/typographic_links/