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2018 Weekly Planner Giveaway

I am offer a chance to win one of my handbound, hardcover weekly planners. I have two to giveaway! Just leave a comment on my blogger site: https://myhandboundbooks.blogspot.ca/2018/01/2018-weekly-planner-giveaway.html

And follow me on Twitter for another chance to win @rhondamillerMHB

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Some books I made:

1. A hardcover journal featuring my own marbled paper on the covers

2. A couple of large hardcover sketchbooks with leather and pretty flower prints

3. An embroidered “sampler” binding

4. Wooden board, late Gothic era binding (I even made the clasps)

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The Chinese Thread Book, also called Zhen Xian Bao. If you are in the Cleveland area, you can join me for a workshop to make one of these and learn all about their history, variations, traditional decoration etc. Aug 13-14, 2016 at the Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH.

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Job Title: Apprentice Bookbinder. Location: Windsor Castle. Closing Date: 31/07/2016 23:55

!!! QUICK! Apply for this awesome thing! And, if you think you hear quiet sobs emanating from somewhere in the North of Edinburgh, that’s just your imagination. I’m actually totally fine with the fact that I can’t apply. Yup.

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this would be amazing

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Calling all booklrs

Since my dash has become horribly boring (and believe me when I say that it has to be especially dull so that I get bored), I need book blogs to follow. So please, if you would reblog, I’d be able to follow you.

Thank you!!

#books!

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Latest Creation!

Cognac Squares by BC Bookbinding

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Congratulations Tatiana Maslany :D

My new favorite limp vellum binding structure -- which I learned from one of Monica Langwe’s books.

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Many itty bitty books #bookbinding

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One of my new toys. #bookbindingstudio

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Came back to the studio and found this. #bookbindersdilemma

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“Zhen xian bao” (Chinese thread book), a traditional concept adapted by Daria Wilber from Ruth Smith’s Folded Secrets. Folded and glued by Annalisa from various sizes of Shizen cotton paper. While these aren’t instructions for this particular design online, there’s a more origami-based variant here by paperkawaii/Chrissy.

For the final day of Daria Wilber’s maker residency at ppld, she taught me how to make these lovely zhen xian bao. From what I understand*, these thread books are an art form that came from some of the tribes of southwestern China. People (particularly tailors and seamstresses) would make beautiful paper wallets like this one to hold threads, needles, fabric scraps, patterns, basically anything that could lie relatively flat. The pockets keep everything contained, while the flatness and size of the books make them very portable, so they were incredibly utilitarian in addition to being works of art themselves.

There is so much to love about these that I don’t care that I had to use glue! Daria brought this beautiful screenprinted 100% cotton paper, and it is even more beautiful than the pictures show. She was so generous to let me have enough for not just one, but two of these. And look at all the pockets! As you can see, mine has 5 pockets, but that’s really a miniature version. Daria teaches classes on how to make 15- and 17-pocket versions of these books, and traditional zhen xian bao have had even more pockets than that. And really, who doesn’t need more pockets in their life?

I waited to post this because I decided to give it to my friend Krisztina for her birthday. She is a quilter par excellence, so hopefully she can, in the grand tradition of the art form, use this to keep some of her sewing supplies organized. Now that I’ve finally gotten it in the mail and delivered, I can put it up here without worrying about spoilers. Happy birthday, Krisztina!

*I was not taking notes as Daria was telling me about these books, and while I think my information is correct, it is just what I’m remembering. Please let me know if you see some errors or know more about this. Since folk art especially can be poorly sourced and misappropriated, I would like to do my best to represent it as accurately and respectfully as possible.

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The original research on these Chinese thread books was done by Ruth Smith and Gina Corrigan. They have documented their time in China and the thread book traditions in a book:

A Little Known Chinese Folk Art: Zhen Xian Bao

http://www.amazon.ca/dp/095288044X/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_HrTdwb04JD4BN

And here’s an example that I made, with 15 boxes:

http://myhandboundbooks.blogspot.ca/2015/07/book-204.html

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Added to my Etsy shop today: Handbound leather journal - aged and distressed brown leather

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Journals made using Antique Photographs by MyHandboundBooks on Flickr.

Via Flickr: These handmade journals have an antique photo for the front covers. I’m not exactly sure how old the photos are, but are likely from the early 1900s. The photos are mounted and in excellent condition. Mat board is used for the back covers. These old photos were unwanted and were discarded by a small museum nearby so I reclaimed them! And I’ve also used mat board scraps from a local framing shop for the back covers. Handbound with a chain stitch binding. Each book has 144 pages of 50lb drawing paper. The paper is slightly off-white and has torn edges. Book size is about 6½" x 4¼" and ¾" thick (or 16.5cm x 11cm x 2cm). SOLD Visit my bookbinding blog: www.myhandboundbooks.com

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