Category: books

Lotus Skeleton Book

I’ve learned the that easiest book cover material is thin cotton adhered to a typing-weight paper back.  So for these three books, (Remember book, Strive book and Lotus-skeleton book) I started out with three different calico-weight scraps of cloth and glued them onto misprinted pages.  This piece of cloth is pink and red, and it …

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Fifteen little books

  This is part of what I’ve been working on the last two weeks. I’ve felt irresponsible not posting anything, but this is the first time I’ve had something even remotely finished.  I also have a lot of pottery that will come out of the kiln in a week and a half.

Kuchi Red-Violet book

This is the fourth of a series of four books I did simultaneously in which I used the same rainbow tie-dye fabric as a base. For this book, there wasn’t any green and hardly any blue in the piece of cloth I had, which I liked very much.  The front cover and the back are …

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Something’s in the Kitchen

This is the third in the series of four books for which I used rainbowy tie-dyed fabric as the base.  For this one I fused together strips of novelty cotton prints, then stitched in a crosswise pattern to keep them secure.  I knew I wanted some kind of text over the fabric, but I couldn’t decide …

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Beaded Blue December Book

This is the second of the series of four books I made using rainbow tie-dyed material as a base.  I adhered thin printed mesh fabric over the top of the base using fusible interfacing.  The nice thing about fusible interfacing is that it’s lightweight and transparent.  The drawback is that it’s very difficult to get …

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