Showing posts with label handbound books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handbound books. Show all posts

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Some of the things I've been making.

3 basic stab-bound books with covers made of my handmade rag papers.


Top: one of my experimental books with leather laces incorporated into the spine and fore edge. The cover material is Japanese washi that I decorated using pigmented paste.
Bottom: a detail of the spine.


I started making these for friends! Collaged papers adhered to a glass front, edged in copper with an ultrasuede back (so that it feels soft against the skin).


Some of my letterpress cards.
The images are a combination of vintage metal cuts and old wood type. I print them on the Vandercook or my Showcard flatbed press. Polymer plates aren't part of my repertoire . I'm a bit of a Luddite, so I can't create the vector files needed to have polymer plates of new images produced!


A rainbow of my handmade rag papers sewn together for a book.


A small pillow book covered in silk for your little secrets.



A large album with a fuzzy heart and dragonfly pendant sewn onto a pink burlap cover.


The deckle edges some of my handmade rag papers.


Some books.
Top: concertina book covered in Japanese washi decorated using a paste resist method.
Middle: book with exposed stitches through the spine. The cover is more of my handmade paper made with a mix of cotton pulp and kozo fibre. There is a button sewn on the front and a cord to tie the book closed.
Bottom: book has exposed stitching and a cover made of card stock letterpress printed with an assortment of vintage cuts. The cord cinching stitches on the spine is also used for tying the book closed.