Tag: hand bound book

Black Weed Book

I think I like this best of the books in the rainbow series.  It’s predominantly red, which is one of my favorite colors, so that’s part of it. This was one of the first ones I finished, so I wasn’t terribly concerned about making it that different.  I decided to just go with the background …

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Lucky Number Book

Inspired by the previous book in the rainbow series, I decided I wanted to do some more lettering.  It used to be that people who painted signs and drew ads had to paint the letters and numbers by hand, and they had to use both precision and creativity in designing their own fonts.  I wanted …

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Calligraphy/Black Wing book

This was another one of the rainbow series books, so-called because of the rainbow look of the tie-dyed/marble technique fabric I used for the base.  After the layers of masking tape and washes, I had blocks of color, which I added stamps to.  This one has silver rub-and-buff as accents. I wanted to try some …

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Bronze Book

This was actually a book cover that I had started this spring, but had to leave unfinished on the shelf because I ran out of book blanks.  Once I made more book blanks, I got it out to finish up. I started with a printed calico, which I washed over with violet and black.  You …

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Black Cat Book

This was one of a series of books I made recently.  I started by taking some ironed sheets of thin cotton cloth.  I used a marbled paper technique wherein dye is laid on top of a bed of shaving cream, only instead of using food coloring or alcohol based inks, I used some leftover fabric …

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