This is the next book that is waiting for its headbands. This book was meant to illustrate the poor double Coptic headbands (white with black).
But I cannot make me add them – I think it looks much better as plain as it is now. Or have I just seen too many Coptic headbands in the last weeks?
Not very well visible is the weave stitch at the waist of the book. This time I followed my own intuition instead of K. Smith. While doing it, I realized that a) this is really the same as his Celtic weave, only that he is using two alternating colors and b) I understood what my initial mistake was – when I made it again this time.
The red cloth was once covering my couch. I used it already once for a similar book with a buttonhole stitch. The label is a piece of rag paper machine sewn onto the cloth before covering the boards.
I like it like this! but if I can see correctly you already punched holes for the headbands so you’ll have to sew them on anyway 🙂
Yes, the holes for the headbands were already there 🙁
SoI decided finally this morning to add them. I still liked the book better without, but the bands turned out really nice, I think – check it out on Flickr 🙂