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Silk aquatint print

Edition 1/5

22”x34”

2012

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Girdle Book

First attempt working with leather aside from the quarter leather. The leather was free, but was in no way the best, but free. 

Also, this was my first attempt at making a girdle book. A girdle book was used by medevil european monks that hung from their girld/waste. 

The knot at the end is not finished.

20 signatures of white Fabriano paper with sewn on cords. 

Hand made marbled paper from Il Papiro used for the end sheets.

Headbands! 

and on the front of the girdle book are 2 gilded gold leaf symbols. The top gilded symbol is the Fleur de lis and at the bottom is the symbol for the Medici coat of arms. They were both gilded by an experience guilder who worked at the leather school behind Santa Croce in Florence Italy.

2012

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Quarter leather with sewn on cords.

Hand made marbled paper from Il Papiro.

15 signatures using white Fabriano paper.

and my first time sewing headbands!

2012

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Paper back book with paper tapes.

10 signatures of white Fabriano paper.

Letterpress printing on spine with gold powder.

Box for casing (still needs to be finished or redone at some point). The interior paper of box is store bought wood block printed paper from Il Papiro. http://www.ilpapirofirenze.it/

There is also an Il Papiro in New York.

2012

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Done sewing on these signatures around the cords, but start on wooden boards and quarter leather covers for this baby tomorrow. Hopefully cords will be long enough, big chance they wont though. Whew. Buonanotte.  

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Linoleum block for wallpaper design print.

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"Reframed"

3 books slip case

2012