A while ago I read somewhere (I think it was on the book arts mailing list) that someone improvised more sophisticated tooling by forming a piece of wire, heat it, and press that to the leather. If I remember correctly, he used such a procedure to gold emboss a handwritten title on leather covers. Since […]
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Worktable Wednesday: More Acrylics and Mixed Media
Admittedly, these are photos from Tuesday. But it is posted on a Wednesday, so this counts, don’t you think? Posting this series on a Wednesday with pictures from Tuesday somehow works better for me, so I’ll stick to it, probably. Mondays are always slow for me, while Tuesdays usually work well – because all the […]
How to Make this Book. Part II
This is the second part of the instruction of how to make the book that you see on the left. In the first part, I told you how I set the red hearts into the black leather, so that now I have everything in place to start constructing my case. There are 4 pieces of […]
How to make this book. Part I
You see here on the left my contribution to the BEST Zombie Award. We are holding a public vote each Halloween to decide who made the best Halloween themed book. (I’ll tell you again when it is time to vote!) When I finished it, I thought that I could make a tutorial about how to […]
Failure or New Design?
This did not turn out like intended. Not sure yet, whether I have to file this under “unintentional design” or under “failure”. The book will have to stay in my studio for a while, and stand being stared at. Probably in a few days I will have decided whether to list it in my shop(s) […]