Reverse Butterfly Book

Suminagashi Reverse Butterfly Book

Pull out the strip and remove the page

Back showing accordion structure

Lovely new book thanks to Miss Marie.  She discovered this interesting structure and brought a sample to the last TeaBAG meeting.  I used sumnigashi papers, kozo paper for the pages, watercolor paper for the covers and spine.  The tab strips pull out and the pages come out! Infinite possibilities! 

New book finish and Suminagashi

Two needle coptic and celtic weave

Latest book finish.  Attempted celtic weave from Keith Smith book, #?.   They recommended to start off with only celtic weave at the top and bottom to keep it manageable.  I still had 7 threads and 14 needles going as I worked from the front to the back.  It is nicely tensioned, but I didn't get the weave exactly correct.  The white and dark are supposed to alternate and they are adjacent in a couple of rows. 

Floating ink on water, magic!

This one is full of vintage prints and my block

Sample pages

prints!  Very special!

Two color

Suminagshi workshop

TeaBAG workshop this month was Suminagashi.   Japanese marbling with inks floating on water.  Love this technique and the variety of the results.  Forgot to take photos of all the finished pages.  Some of mine are here.  We had a variety of papers to work with and one of the coolest was brown paper from grocery bags. 

More Annapolis

Lovely store window

Quiet local inhabitant

Fountain reflection

More snippets from Annapolis.  Lovely views.   I enjoyed walking around taking photos and enjoying the texture underfoot. 

Annapolis

Historic Warehouse

Shiplap House 1715

35$ Crab Cakes at the Middleton Tavern

Gone this week to  Annapolis.   Highlights from the trip.

Cool Cat

The Queen on CamWow

It's mine, all mine!  The ipod touch.  Too cool!  Playing around with camera filters. 

A bit of porch color

Hipsta golf

Toadally cool

Found my ball

Heidelberg love

Father's day gift and new book finish with Heidelberg prints

Travel pouch for pills

This is a little Father's day gift for my Beloved.   Like my golf clubs I bought myself for Mother's Day, he bought an equally expensive thing he wanted for his Father's Day present.   I recently found this wonderful fox fabric (Beloved collects foxes, long story) and wanted to make something out of it.   The plan was to find a nice plastic box that would hold daily pill container and a couple of vitamin bottles for travel and make a nice padded cover for it, a'la Vera Bradly.  I couldn't find one the right size, but I did find a nice zippered travel pouch, so added a fabric panel to personalize it.

New Secret Belgian Binding Book

Inside cover with old charts

Heidelberg print!

 Here we have a new SBB book.  This one has some vintage prints that were printed on the Heidelberg press at St. Andrews.   I am apprenticing with Buddy and we made them!!  Yes, we did!  It was so totally awesome!  I was walking on air the rest of the week.  The best part is I get to do it again this week.  A dab of ink goes in, there is whirring and wooshing, paper magically disappears from one stack and appears on the other with pictures!

Easy cut block print

Here is another homemade print.  I have been wanting to carve blocks and print for a long time.  Bought the materials and tools and couldn't bring myself to start.   Saturday morning fresh and determined with half a pot of coffee in me, I sketched a couple of ideas, then carved an easy cut block and printed it with water soluble speedball ink.  All the prints had smudges or thin spots, but still not bad for seat of the pants original sketch and first print!  Most of the prints are going into a book with a more advanced binding.   Stay tuned!