"I thought it was too late, but I learned. There's more than one way to capture a heart."

front

back

binding is modified leather binding, my binding of choice for closed spines. The cover is a screenprint of mine of a cobwebbed heart and octopus tentacles. The image came from the phrase,"I thought it was too late, but I learned. There's more than one way to capture a heart" which is written along the bottom. Along the top it's written in castilian spanish.

Masculine

cover

binding is some more double coptic modified into chevrons

Strange name for the book maybe, but it refers to my mother and grandmother's responses to the cover which was originally made as a gift to my godmother. It was rejected as too masculine and I had to make a different book for my godmother. I was entirely nonplussed by the judgement.

Memories

This cover is unusual for me in almost every way. Was I having a good day when I made it? nope. does that explain it? you bet.

binding is a double needle coptic modified into chevrons

Mountains-Redux

Cover is of handmade blue paper and my linocut of the Alaskan mountains. It was my first attempt at oil printmaking and it...didn't go as planned. This cover however came out a success!

is it obvious to do the zig zag variation for mountain scenes? yes. do i care? no

Vines

Cut out of grape vines with handmade tinted denim paper underneath

internal shizen end papers

binding is a double, twisted link and kettle. I usually wouldn't do such a harvest style color scheme but the colors suit its recipient

usually link and kettle is done just once giving alternating stitch and blank bits on the spine...but I went twice, both to strengthen the binding and to suit the twist and curl of vines (...left unpruned?)

this is NOT a viable binding!

Another of the gift books. This one gave me a headache because I broke my own rule-don't do risky variations with books you must have professional-looking at the end. Well it really didn't work out and I ended up with strangely spaced holes in my covers (and had to scrap the signatures)...and of course, it's meant for one of the people I respect the most! *sigh* It came out alright in the end but the process...was terrible!

FLW

I admit, I haven't made a lot of books lately...

cover is cut out with an xacto knife with handmade denim paper underneath

double needle coptic modified into circles

Close-up of binding.
This is meant as a gift...I'm giving books as gifts to a few people whom I respect a lot at the end of the semester and so am nervous about them and am intent on making them as unique and unreproducible as possible...