Wooden Book With Sun Embellishment

 Ali Manning's Handmade Book Club Challenge is wood. I created this book using wood for the covers and a sun embellishment using Creative Paper Clay. I tried a Coptic Stitch for the binding but I didn't like how the end columns turned out so I added black thread to the binding. While adding the black thread the yellow thread broke so it came out very messy.

 I will use the sketchbook as a test to see how the paper clay holds up on the cover. The sun has been gessoed and varnished several times and I used E6000 to glue it to the cover. My sketchbooks take a lot of abuse so it will probably be run through a 3-month test. 

Western Multiple Signature Book Arts

I have been working in my "textbook", Making Handmade Books by Alisa Golden for some time now. It is a great book that takes you from easy to more difficult structures with good diagrams and instructions. We also used it in a book arts class taught by Cindy Zimmerman, my most favorite class of all time. 

This little book is Western Multiple Signature with a Wrapped Hard Cover. I used lined pages ripped from an old journal for the inside pages and for the cover I used paste paper I made with a friend last year. 

The book is 4.25 x 3 inches.