Diverging into Book Making

Finally worked this one out of my system . . . temporarily anyway.  It's a fabric book pinning down not only various bits of fabric significant to me (handwoven jacket, shower curtain, favourite old t-shirt . . . ) but also giving a home to various mementos from Festivals and other gatherings. Here are a few of the pages.

I invented the binding to allow for the bulk of some of the items. The little book at the end is a cute 8 page model folded from one sheet of A4. It contains the information about the book and its contents, stored in a shirt pocket I will never have to iron again!  I had such fun doing this. Now I will go back to the loom.

And something different again!

Today I made a book . . . 96 pages, exposed spine with three different types of stitching, handwoven fabric covers.

It is ages since I have done anything like this but I thoroughly enjoyed a whole day with other people also enjoying themselves. It reminds me of several ideas I've had for a while but never get time to work on.

Here is a view of most of the 14 books produced in today's course. Covers ranged from felt and handwoven fabric to velvet and paper.