Bibliophily
Aug. 15th, 2022 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrWhen not dealing with shows or van (or now, a new production run), I've been doing a lot of book art.
The July workshop with Emerald Book and Paper Arts covered making woven spine journals. This was a totally new technique to me. You sew up each signature (bundle of pages) separately, using a simple pamphlet stitch, then bind them together by weaving thread through the spine, using the pamphlet threads as warps. You can brighten it up with colored paper guard sheets around each signature; I used some watercolor sheets I'd made at a workshop in 2021. Beads can be added, strung on the ends of the pamphlet threads. We also learned how to make a slip cover, which I decorated with more of the watercolor paper.
We also had the follow-up session to our tile cover books last Thursday. Set up in the back yard, in the shade of the neighbor's walnut tree, and Denise showed us how to use Coptic stitch to bind covers to pages. Again had a very good turn out, and some lovely books were made.
Lastly, our monthly meeting is coming up, and I'm working on an Exchange book. The topic is farms/harvest, and I had an idea I really wanted to try. The format is a tunnel book, four layers/frames separated by accordion folded spacers. The text is from a Stan Rogers song, The Field Behind the Plow.
Might have to make another of these; I don't want to give it away.
The July workshop with Emerald Book and Paper Arts covered making woven spine journals. This was a totally new technique to me. You sew up each signature (bundle of pages) separately, using a simple pamphlet stitch, then bind them together by weaving thread through the spine, using the pamphlet threads as warps. You can brighten it up with colored paper guard sheets around each signature; I used some watercolor sheets I'd made at a workshop in 2021. Beads can be added, strung on the ends of the pamphlet threads. We also learned how to make a slip cover, which I decorated with more of the watercolor paper.
We also had the follow-up session to our tile cover books last Thursday. Set up in the back yard, in the shade of the neighbor's walnut tree, and Denise showed us how to use Coptic stitch to bind covers to pages. Again had a very good turn out, and some lovely books were made.
Lastly, our monthly meeting is coming up, and I'm working on an Exchange book. The topic is farms/harvest, and I had an idea I really wanted to try. The format is a tunnel book, four layers/frames separated by accordion folded spacers. The text is from a Stan Rogers song, The Field Behind the Plow.
Might have to make another of these; I don't want to give it away.