15th century europe

cover is a 15th century map of europe

binding is two double needle coptics with a zig zag single needle coptic in the middle

close up

Motion

cover is a photo I took of curled up extension cords. Binding is a modified coptic

unintentional

twisted link and kettle   I call this one unintentional because I totally failed to notice the clear Christmas theme of the paper until midway through binding it. I had no intention of making Christmasy books for the Holiday Fair and yet, I did.

A Glance

closed

cover is a screen-print of mine. binding is modified leather

If only....

cover made out of handmade celery paper with some if onlys written along the edge in opalescent ink

binding is the modified leather binding ending in braided cord

izena duen guzia omen da

cover. "izena duen guzia omen da" is my sole phrase in Euskerra (Basque language) and it's one of those traditional sayings, that which is named exists.

sewing w/ weaving variation

close-up

archaisch Kunst Gorgonen

from a withdrawn dissertation on the Archaic representation of Gorgons

straight up double needle coptic

Polka Dots

Series: Map Books

So libraries withdraw things from their collections and my library was withdrawing a guidebook to all of Europe. I was like, say it ain't so! and took advantage of having maps! in color! and made this series of map books sewn with coptic. Some of them had lined pages...some didn't...


let's see, I had London, Paris, Rome, Venice, Prague, Moscow, Berlin, Madrid, Dublin...

Barcelona

Amsterdam

Imagery

cover is from a linocut based upon the griffins from Avaris, Egypt

binding is multiple width double needle coptic

brushed with silver

Untitled

cover

binding is a rather dense twisted link and kettle

this book is one of those that is far better in person. The cover has so much texture caused by the 4-5 layers of paint of various kinds...

Auspicious

cover

binding is a double needle coptic modified into arcs

inside pages decorated with bits of the (long) entry for auspicious in my latin dictionary

Drops

binding is straight up double needle coptic

Yellow, Dark Red, Orange

more smaller ledger books

Golden

cover

zig zag variation on coptic with zig zags left unfinished as a variation on the variation

close up

edges are dusted with gold

Awake

I've figured out that lately I stay most focused in class when I'm making a book. Any of the more complicated stitches that fall in line best when I don't think about it. I've been making a lot of books lately


binding is a double needle coptic modified into X shapes

Schoolbook

Wow, it really has been awhile since I last updated here. Well, I've been making books, I keep awake during lectures by making them but my card reader has not really been working...but, anyway

my notebook for this semester

a suitably ambiguous cover (a litho print) made water resistant by too much matte medium.

I took the opportunity to use up some of the bits of thread that I have lying around that are too short to use by themselves but are the last of their color to create this two-tone single-needle coptic

Sunset

3 signature binding

Quite

covers


spine view

a Sewing with weave

blue papers placed in the signatures.

"Perfect" Binding

cover

open

the last book made for the book arts class I took last semester. My first adhesive binding. This is the binding that most books in the library are bound with so I have to admit that my library job fixing all those books doesn't put me in the fullest confidence of the handmade version but it was a good thing to learn to do.