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I made 20 of these for a swap. The covers are book board, covered with paper. The signatures are made of watercolor paper and hand bound with waxed linen thread in a kettle stitch. The cover is a flattened bottle cap painted with fluid acrylics and accented with oil stick in gold. The illustrations are hand drawn and then scanned and sized to fit in the book. I painted each one after mounting it in the book. Finally, the closure is a magnetic barrel clasp tied with waxed cord. "To make a prairie, it takes a clover and one bee, and reverie. The reverie alone will do, if bees are few." Emily Dickinson
These are so beautiful! I would love to try making a few. Any good tutorial to get me started.
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AnaMaria
Sorry, just to clarify, your how-to is great. I'm talking about how to hand bind the little books.
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AnaMaria
I couldn't find much to help when I was making mine. I used a basic bookbinding text and everything was the same, just very small! If you go to your local library I bet they'll have a book on bookbinding. This was called the "kettle stitch"--I made three signatures (paper folded in half) then stitched back and forth between them. K
ReplyDeletethat's my favorite emily dickenson poem! though i am not a fan of bees in general, i think these are cute. i love the closure!
ReplyDeleteI love bees - they are my thing!
ReplyDeletethese are great~
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