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Mar. 19th, 2004 09:42 amIt's Friday. I'm at work today, though I'm not working hard. No one who's here today is working hard, and there aren't that many people here--the bosses have been away at a conference all week, and it's Friday, and nice weather, so.....
I still itch, but the rash is gone. Small favors.
Finished reading my new book yesterday; well worth the $30 and a trip to Lawrence. Managed to start and finish one of the new-to-me binding styles from the book, a caterpillar binding. Basicly, it's bound like my Coptic books, with the stitching going horizontally across the spine, but the stitching continues onto the covers, and the stitches are wrapped as they're worked, so what you end up with is a coil of thread with little stitches sticking out the bottom, like little legs. I will scan the book and post pics over the weekend. Used my "standard" materials: textblock was copier-weight paper scavenged from the print shop, cover was chipboard from a 24-pack of Coke, covered with light blue shiny wallpaper we probably scavenged from one of the cleaning session at Weatherhill, years and years ago, and stitched in dark blue perle cotton. The wallpaper made a nice cover material....it sets off the matte texture of the cotton stitching, and hides the marks the needle may have made sliding under the stitching. Also gave the covers more stiffness, without have to glue up lots of layers.
By kindly dug out the stitching frame he made himself when he took a bookbinding class at KSU years ago; I just need to clean it, then I can try some of the more complicated stuff.
Actually, I need to scan and post a bunch of things, don't I? I've finished several stab-bound books the past week, and a little pamphlet-bound book of Kipling's "A Tree Song" (it's only 2 1/2" tall, it's very cute). And I don't think I ever put pic up of the first Coptic-style books I did. Bad me, no cookie.
Poor By had a long day yesterday--got a panicked phone call from Robyn's sister in LA, after she'd put Robyn on the plane. Robyn had left her case of samples in her sister's car. And the people By talked to at the hotel in Bangkok didn't speak enough English to take a useful message. By didn't think it'd be worth shipping the samples to her there, since they'd probably get there just in time for her to get back on the plane. Hope today is less eventful for him.
I still itch, but the rash is gone. Small favors.
Finished reading my new book yesterday; well worth the $30 and a trip to Lawrence. Managed to start and finish one of the new-to-me binding styles from the book, a caterpillar binding. Basicly, it's bound like my Coptic books, with the stitching going horizontally across the spine, but the stitching continues onto the covers, and the stitches are wrapped as they're worked, so what you end up with is a coil of thread with little stitches sticking out the bottom, like little legs. I will scan the book and post pics over the weekend. Used my "standard" materials: textblock was copier-weight paper scavenged from the print shop, cover was chipboard from a 24-pack of Coke, covered with light blue shiny wallpaper we probably scavenged from one of the cleaning session at Weatherhill, years and years ago, and stitched in dark blue perle cotton. The wallpaper made a nice cover material....it sets off the matte texture of the cotton stitching, and hides the marks the needle may have made sliding under the stitching. Also gave the covers more stiffness, without have to glue up lots of layers.
By kindly dug out the stitching frame he made himself when he took a bookbinding class at KSU years ago; I just need to clean it, then I can try some of the more complicated stuff.
Actually, I need to scan and post a bunch of things, don't I? I've finished several stab-bound books the past week, and a little pamphlet-bound book of Kipling's "A Tree Song" (it's only 2 1/2" tall, it's very cute). And I don't think I ever put pic up of the first Coptic-style books I did. Bad me, no cookie.
Poor By had a long day yesterday--got a panicked phone call from Robyn's sister in LA, after she'd put Robyn on the plane. Robyn had left her case of samples in her sister's car. And the people By talked to at the hotel in Bangkok didn't speak enough English to take a useful message. By didn't think it'd be worth shipping the samples to her there, since they'd probably get there just in time for her to get back on the plane. Hope today is less eventful for him.
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