Going Places

cover with vintage postcard

stenciled interior

a tea-stained simple japanese binding with kangxi corners. this is an oldie.

Green Bird

cover

a much saner version of the Coptic variation (same exact as here)

binding close up

More Ledger Books

green's binding finished in a 4 string braid

green

yellow

i love making this type!

Mountains

cover

interior

binding

binding close up


word to the wise: when attempting this binding, do not make your zig zags so close together! I blame insomnia for the sheer amount of holes sewn in this book. It is a modified Coptic. on the cover is my study for my Alaskan mountain linocut (here in action) overlaid onto a teal ink cover

Subversio Dolce

I stopped thinking clearly while making this book.


closed showing braided cord and tea-dyed parchment cover

opened flap showing the pencil pocket

a seriously overloaded modified leather binding

so, I thought a short jaunt into the oven to help dry out the book after the tea dying would be fine...instead, I...forgot it in the oven. the singed/burnt edges

interior pages with the tea dregs that burnt through the pages

just am thankful that I didn't forget it longer than 15 minutes! it probably would have set itself on fire...

Tree Climbing

a dos-a-dos construction

the binding is a twisted link and kettle

covers and text block

the book

Patchwork

full cover

interior page

seems so long ago...this was my first single-needle coptic

Parade

front cover with special paper

binding is a hemp-leaf style Japanese stab binding with the 2 center ones modified and with kangxi (noble) corners

a better look at the variation

Supposing

spine view

front cover

back cover

"the unexamined life is not worth living" (Socrates)

"supposing is a frivolous ability, and we all have it." (ana maria moix)

coptic with repurposed interior pages. silver "poster paint" and gloss medium combined to make the shimmery gorgeous effect of the cover

Ghostly

front cover

back cover


this is the binding style of Ghostly (for some reason I have no picture of Ghostly's which is brown)it is a twisted link and kettle, newly learned for the new year.

Swoops

spine view

cover

binding close up

this is an unsupported Belgian Secret Import Binding. pastel paper, printer paper,acrylic

Energy

front

back

binding detail

everything about this cover is salvaged. binding is coptic.

Endearments

tea-dyed parchment cover

double loaded modified leather binding

Alaska

closed

cover

binding detail

interior

binding is unnamed, I call it the modified leather binding because I took it off a store-bought leather-bound book. mountains are a linoprint (I cut the block from a photo I took while in Alaska.) cover is of parchment with drawing paper interior.

Blue and Bleeding Heart

Coptic with pretty handmade paper (by Michelle Wilson) for a cover that ended up being so pretty that I couldn't think or bear to think of decorating it further.

""My heart does not bleed," she tell herself. but it does." (Margaret Atwood) simple Japanese stab binding

Untitled

spine view. cover is decorated by a hieroglyphic

back view

purely made up experimental 2 hole binding. bristol paper