DIY Cloth Book Binding (by makinghandmadebooks)

A useful guide for anyone wanting to learn how to make textile or mixed media books using basic slot & tab binding.

teachingliteracy:

The Book Necklace / Fox / Journal with Pencil on etsy.

phoebe-bird:

Something long forgotten. 

A tiny book, bound with love on a sunny summer afternoon three years ago. Sent back and fourth from California to Rhode Island, between my ex-boyfriend and I.

I don’t know what made me think of it today. 

nevver:

Tête-à-tête

Envelope Book by ohhellofriend

teachingliteracy:

a book about being broken by stitch therapy.

Venus and Mars by Alicia Bailey

Altered astronomy book/assemblage exploring the relationship between the artist’s father (who was orphaned as a child) and her great aunt who raised him. The bookwork is entirely made from the personal belongings of her now deceased father Tom and great aunt Ruth.

“I like to think about them both. They are the two in my family whose personality traits my own are most akin to.  Intelligent, educated, filled with curiosity, fascinated with the physical world, and introverted. Ruth was passionate about the organic structure of the world she knew and studied biology. Tom studied the physical structure of objects and relationships between them, and became a mechanical engineer. I find solace in the handling and manipulation of objects and became an artist. I have an archive rich with objects belonging to them both and often include items from those archives in my personal studio work.”

Burning Me Open by Alicia Bailey

Handmade artist’s book of linear illustration and erotic poetry. The book pages are transparent, and thus allow sections of several pages to be viewed at once. The pages are rigid and thick, designed to display well both flat or upright. When displayed upright, lighting can be adjusted for increased interplay between the line illustrations and the shadows they cast.

Text selection from the book:

there is one who touches me so it burns

my hands open

at their feeling of

the length of me

visualgraphic:

The Skin Book

“Handmade artist’s book about the journey through my skin to my inner heart. The blue and red string represent the arteries and the veins - each carrying the good and bad emotions I have inside me. The centre of the book is where these blood vessels meet and explode.”

(Source: visualgraphic)

teachingliteracy:

Owl Domino Book (by lauracars12000)