#bookmaking i

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This is my crowning glory from this semester- my final project! My art history teacher is an archaeologist and joked about me making her a field journal after seeing some of my books, so I discussed it with my bookmaking teacher and it worked out well! She absolutely adored it, and I worked really hard on it - I’m just really happy she liked it so much. Off it goes to the middle east for excavations! (in-progress shots here)

This 9x5 field journal features... 

roughly 50 sheets of slightly tinted handmade paper with flowers pressed and dried into the pages (more pages here and here)

letterpress printing of my teacher’s favourite quote and a little note at the back

a leather bookmark and leather clasp that works with a pen (or dowell, as it was presented)

bookcloth pockets (one had a sewn design)

longstitch and link stitching 

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Part 1 of my favourite sheets of paper I made! The flowers are from my house and around campus. I really love how the color seeped into the paper as it dried! 

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Part 2 of my handmade floral paper. It’s been cool to watch as the flowers slowly change color as they die (that sounds morbid, but you know...). I tried to position most of them a little nicely and out of the way so she could use the sheets to actually write on!

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Some in-progress pictures of the process for the field journal (see here), including walking home from letterpress printing covered in ink and grease, creating a spine and sewing it in, and picking flowers for my floral handmade paper (see examples here and here).