Sold!

First journals sold!

here's the coptic stitch:

rebound books

the logo says "inscribe"... it'll do for now.

New Crop of Books

Let's see... first off, here are some books that have been re-bound.  I've taken old books with catchy covers, cut out the old block of pages, and sewn in new, blank ones.  Vintage books have 

sweet impressions, like this one: 

The maroon book is an old geography handbook... I added the new block of pages, then put maps into the inner-covers for a bit of color.

Also, I learned a new binding method that allows for more pages, and can be used in more complicated bindings, like using the vintage covers... it is called the coptic stitch, and you can see it by looking down the spine of the book... it is composed of multiple signatures (pages folded together), sewn together along the folds.  The Coptic church invented this binding in the 4th century, which is seriously vintage!

Here is a journal, using the coptic stitch ( look at the left side).  On the cover is a screen print of scaffolding.  I think it works well with the bare-bones construction.  (Actually, the original picture that the print comes from is on my photography blog...

obscurelyilluminated.blogspot.com

Screen printing is really involved, since I don't have a darkroom.  I use a photo-sensitive paint on the screen, and then "burn" an image into it with a powerful bulb.  The results are awesome, 

and one screen will make as many prints as you want.