I just finished two new books, and I’ve used up all the signatures I made so it’s time to sew some more. 

To make the cover of this book, I started with a piece of green and black calico.  I collaged a painted layer of paper towel over that. You can see the holey-honeycomb texture in the corner. After that was dry, I pasted the gold art paper over where the spine would go.  I used a rubber stamp with latin writing over the papers, and poured gold embossing powder over it.  The embossing powder didn’t coat perfectly, but I like the look anyway.  After that was dry, I sewed the silk oak leaves on.  The acorn is a low fired clay bead that I made from a pressmold I made from a real acorn several years ago.

I showed the end papers in this post, because it’s such a pain to paste in endpapers that I didn’t want my efforts to go unrecognized.  It makes a difference to have endpapers that match the motif of the book’s cover; I just don’t like how fussy the measuring is.