The medium is the message!
My sampler book illustrates and describes aspects of my processes for eco dyeing and printing on fabric and paper. Dye printed fabrics and papers make up both form and content of the book.
Now my sampler “pocket” book has its covers, endpapers, “flags”, text, inserts and closure.
Covers are made with dye and paste printed 140 lb watercolour paper (madder, cochineal and logwood)
Back Cover
Front Cover
End papers: Logwood paste paper, embossed with a wood block:
“Flags” made from fragments of eco printed and dyed silk samples, inserted into the inner accordion spine by sewing with waxed linen thread:
An array of eco dyed silk flags printed with madder, logwood and cochineal:
Last looks at my newest toy!
Inside the book showing paste paper pockets, sewn signatures, eco dyed/printed silk flags and paper inserts:
And the outside of the book, showing covers, ties and madder-printed accordion spine:
Next posts: Stash Busting!
1. Back to the textile stash! I am recovering a chair with my collection of needlepoint canvases from the sallyann.
2. And a new Artist Book about my stash of rust printed papers, linens and cottons
A bientot!
Each page is artistic. All are master piece. Love the vcolor, the texture and your thinging of making it.
Thank you, Terri. I found it most enjoyable to do!
Wendy
Oh,I love it.Must be so nice to thinking about the project and have at the end such a artful book.Bravissimo.
Gabi,
Thank you! It was interesting to to make because the design eveloped gradually – a finished book was not in my mind. This problem-solution approach is exciting but it has its drawbacks!
Wendy
Hi Wendy,
subtle and sophisticated work! Each and every page of it and the piece as a whole.
Wow!
xo
Elena
Looking at the work with my own eyes and close up, I am tempted to see only the problems whose solutions came only part way to resolving the questions.
Perfectionism always wants a fight with the artist! Humility comes to the artists’s defence with the viewpoint of another artist, and a generous one. Thank you for that.
Wendy
Just wonderful, I am full of admiration.
Signora La Griccia!
Thank you. I have to confess that the challenge of bookmaking has recently taken my thoughts captive. Sleeping is now just a nuisance!
Wendy
Beautiful! I wish I could see it and touch it in person…..
Thanks, Roberta. You are zeroing in on a major attraction of the book as art – it is above all art you can and must touch to enjoy.
beautifully and professionally done Wendy–and i like the addition of the chemical molecule diagram 🙂
Thanks arlee…BUT gotta confess to lots of beginner errors, though, caused by charging ahead from excitement before brain was engaged…
This is stunning. A huge amount of work but absolutely a treasure.
I always love coming for a visit 🙂
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Treena. Come again!
Wendy
super sample book idea!
Thanks, Velma! So many “samples” created, one needs to rack one’s brains for ways to incorporate them into ones art if they did not start out as elements in a design. I appreciate learning what others might do with their own stash of samples, experiments, flops, etc
Wendy