Category: Book Making

Book Making, General, Printing

Small Beginnings – 20th April 2020

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Like many people in these difficult times I am finding it hard to settle, weeding the garden is fine, not too taxing, but to follow a constructive path has been challenging.

I decided to paint some papers

I set it all out 

   

I was taken by my mixing trays and was pulled back to the origins of these small containers – they were the microwave/freezing dishes for my sons baby food and he is now in his mid 30’s!

Memories, so important at the minute. The notion of memories kept repeating itself and then in a flash – “Half a yard of Memories” I like a good title to get me going and help me along a creative path.

I marked out three book formats and sketched out some ideas and progress was made. It seems important to be doing something whilst self isolating. The books will be small, to be held in the hand and treasured like memories. Let’s see where the idea takes me.

Feeling a little more contented

Book Making

Finishing and Completing – 6th April 2020

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I still haven’t been able to settle and I think that this is the case for many people. We are all affected by the events throughout the world and on our doorsteps, so all I can do is my best and be kind to everybody.

New ideas and themes have passed through my brain, but when I’ve looked at them again I’m unimpressed!! So I have concentrated on completing the books that I had already done the printing a few weeks ago.

Above is the completed book which featured in my last blog where I had printed lots of 2cm blind prints and below is a detail of the book titled “Frayed Edges and Unpicked Seams”.

These books form part of the long running series called “And in all Colours”, which is a quote from a letter from London to India in the C17th wanting the new chintz cottons to be full of colour, so when I have a spare print I construct one of these books.

The printed side

The coloured side

Arranged together

Whilst the weather is good I have been focussing lots of my creativity on the garden, I would like to say that’s is weed free by now but it wouldn’t be true!!

Book Making, Printing

Slow Progress – 19th March 2020

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The difficult and challenging times that we are all living at the moment can frequently invade our thoughts and it seems to me to be important to enjoy being distracted and think about other things so that we can more cheerfully cope on a day to day basis.

My printing and bookmaking have been slow but it feels good to record progress. I have framed all my book wall pieces, see above for one of them.

I have been following the idea of “The Collection” which I have written about before.

Here are the grey board templates, 5.5 x 8cm, to emboss into the Somerset 300 gsm paper about to go through the press.

And then I printed small, 2cm, blind prints from several plates.

When they were dry I arranged them into the sections, I needed 16 section with six were section. 

Then there were some stitches added and double sided adhesive stuck to the reverse.

They are now awaiting being inserted into the template recesses.