Days 18 and 19 - July 26

I didn't make a book on the 25th; I just wasn't 'feeling' the bookmaking. So, I put it off until Thursday and made two on the 26th. These two bindings are from Keith A. Smith's Non-Adhesive Binding.

Book 19: dos-a-dos-a-dos or the wedding cake book
{paper} translucent paper and cream text-weight paper
{binding} I used a modified butterfly (pamphlet) stitch to both sew the sections and bind them to the smaller sections

I saw this binding, and I thought that it would be appropriate to make the 'wedding cake book' look like a cake. With cream paper and ribbon contrasting the blue white of the translucent paper makes this book simply edible. Yum!




























Book 20: french doors
{paper} text: cream text-weight; cover: origami paper
{binding} hinged case cover; signatures sewn to the end papers and glued in

The example in Smith's book didn't have a hinged case, but I thought that it would make a supportive cover. I added the pearl buttons in a sort of ad-hoc way. They aren't adhered as best they could, and as a result the buttons are a bit weak. I also learned, by making this book, that flat buttons work best for this type of closure. And so the learning continues...