This year I am participating in Sommerpost (summer mail) a swap project for which I am to make a single signature exercise book, well, 7 in fact, and send them to other participants. I’ll end up with 7 myself, from which we are then binding a book. Because my work will be further used in […]
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Mini Coptic Binding
It’s been a while since I have shared any making of here on this blog. But while I made this mini book the other day I remembered taking some photos: Step 1: The individual steps are really like for any book. The first step for me is always the cutting and folding of signatures and […]
Look, I made a Book!
The last three weeks have been exhausting: My plan had been to finish with 346 before I start my writing course, but of course that didn’t happen. Actually I am still not finished, which means I fail the deadline for the Exhibition in Venice where I wanted to enter it. Then there was half-term, and […]
Single Signature Crochet Chain Stitch – Tutorial
I made a quick journal for me today, and decided to try a binding method I have been wanting to try for a while. And I thought, I’d make a couple of photos and give you a write-up of how it works. No big thing, really. I am very sure it is already covered somewhere […]
Jeansbooks Work in Progress Continued or Cutting Jig II
Hello once more. I just wanted to show you today’s progress on the jeansbooks. I started this morning with putting together the signatures for the small books. For the bigger ones I put each block together individually, and choosing colours and papers was a long process. This time I just decided to use one sheet […]