The continuing hot weather and going away, again, have both slowed my progress. Even my glue stick was melting in the studio!
I have however completed my 32 page book, see last blog for its beginnings. It had been my original intention to create a bundle, but in the end I felt that the bound pages needed some weight to hold them together, both visually and structurally.
I have never used single sheet binding in a completed book before, I liked the way that, by using this form of binding I was still keeping a strong sense of the individual fragments. I used a variegated cotton thread in tones of red through to black to bind, I decided that the variations of colour softened the haze around the paper and was less harsh than a single tone.
The book is called ‘Fragments of Baroque Silk’
My great tidying up of the studio gave me a problem that I hadn’t foreseen, where to position my large sheet of white paper so that I could photograph my books. After several attempts I got there. Still haven’t found my Blu tack though!
So what next……Currently another book artist, from the other side of the world and I are working through procedures and protocols for a collaboration, more details to follow!
Annwyn Dean 