My love with headbands has been a fierce but sporadic one. I first learned to make Coptic headbands in from Nina Judin in 2009. While she was teaching us, I found the directional asymmetry of the Coptic stitch (and endbands) striking. I asked her whether instead of from left to right, it would be possible […]
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Worktable Weekly: Making of a Study Book for Artists (Part III)
This is Part III of showing the process of how I made the book to the left. In the first part I cut the paper and boards, and prepared the pages for the book marks that are attached to the page’s corners.In the second part I prepared the quivers and then sew the book block. […]
Another Study Book
This is the sibbling of the study book that I started to make in yesterday’s blog post. The idea behind these study books was to create a book for artists who want to take more than a sketchbook outside for their studies. They have a mixture of different papers to allow you to change your […]
Penultimate Headband Training Post
This is one of the headbands that I learned in the last days and particularly like. The plan is to use it on the next book which just came off the sewing frame. Hopefully I’ll be able to present it in the next days. Das hier ist eines der Kapitalbänder, die ich in den letzten […]
Headband Training Continued
I am working through the book “Headbands. How to Work” them by Jane Greenfield and Jenny Hille at the moment. I showed you some first props in the last post already. I am planning to make a couple of show cards and reference cards. Most of them I will want to do again for them […]