Ideal Spanish Lady Take 2

cover is the same drawing as last entry's but the original tracing paper used as carbon paper sealed by silvery matte medium

a standard coptic


interior pages are purple/blue dyed, textured by lying on my tile floor, interspersed throughout

Ideal Spanish Lady

cover is a redrawing from a 1932 Spanish magazine cover with the Neruda quote: "Zumbando entre los arboles, orquestral y divino"

binding is a coptic with off set, modified center stitches

Inverse

These two books are aaaaaaall about the binding. oh boy, are they about the binding, they don't even have covers because those'd be distracting.


interior page

binding

detail

binding

detail

These two are exactly the same binding except that one is flipped inside out (bottom set is the non-flipped book). Sewing with overloaded weave variation. Am actually not sure which I like better, what do you think?

Vestiges, Blue

the cover

Sewing w/ weaving variation and covers incorporated

close up of weave

Part of a set, its sister by style and binding is here and its sister by virtue of cover is here. I really liked the weaving variation and had I been in the US, I probably wouldn't have parted with them...but I think their new owners will appreciate them better than my bookshelf.

Vestiges, Red

Cover. This book is part of a set-one is related by cover, the other is more similar and yet to be posted.

binding is Sewing w/ weaving variation and covers incorporated

I made my very first book after the AP Art History exam. In lieu of continuing to teach her students art history, my teacher made art with us. So there is no name for the book-making stitch she taught us because she believed in art for the masses. No fancy thread or paper or anything was really needed to sew the books, just a minor idea of sewing...so I called it the Sewing stitch. Fast forward and I now can no longer do this stitch without improvising in ways too complicated to explain with words...

Two Quite Small Books

number 1

I love the color of the inside paper (which is the same for both of these

number 2

These are pretty small, definitely the smallest books I've sewn. Originally the inside paper was in this fair-trade pad thing with an interesting (kind of complex) binding but the cover wasn't flexible enough for it work well so I disassembled the pads and reused the components in other projects. The paper is a fibrous, mid-weight rich paper which was really, quite nice. The first book's cover is also a fibrous paper while the 2nd's is scrap cardstock. Binding is simple Japanese