I continued working with the print mentioned in the last blog and created two new books.
The first is simply called ‘Refolded Cloth’, its made from Indian Cotton rag paper, a real favourite, it is 15cm tall with a line of red silk running stitch through the centre of the pages.
The second book is called ‘Adaptations’ and is made from Japanese Hosho paper for the pages and Indian Cotton rag paper for the folded covers with a circle of tissue surrounded by running stitches.
Neither of these books have formal hard covers, this is a new departure for me and there are several ways that I could develop these ideas further.
I then began considering, again, Fragments, they are forever with me and seem to open up so many ideas and opportunities.
This book called ’26 Fragments’ sprung from a pile of folded, small Indian paper pieces, that were in my drawer. I embossed an oblong recess in each, to receive a printed fragment and on the facing side I placed a tissue paper fragment with text. They were folded to face each other, as that is the way that the book falls open. There are 26 folded pieces bound together with Coptic stitch. The book is 6.5cm high, 6cm wide and 4.5cm deep.
I then returned my thoughts to the Collaboration with Fiona Dempster, see here, and I made us a catalogue each. Each book is 10.5cm x 30cm, the pages are produced on the computer. It is a Japanese bound book with papers from us both on the cover. Amazingly Fiona’s copy only took 8 days to travel across the world.
What next? I don’t know but I’m ready for the next challenge
Annwyn Dean 