Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

littlecraziness:

(via Make This - Stab Bound Notebooks - Luxe DIY - How Did You Make This?)

Celebrating an era of dynamic and creative cross-pollination between Japanese design and European Art Nouveau at the turn of the last century, Le Japon Artistique features stunning floral imagery drawn from a variety of rare books held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Seldom seen outside the museum context, these lush botanical motifs are as visually enchanting as they are significant in the arc of Japanese art history.

I loveee that the book itself is bound using traditional Japanese stab stitch binding!

(Source: feltandwire.com)

DIY Stab-Stitch Bookbinding Tutorial by Janis Nicolay

quippingboy:

fun fact: i spend an inordinate amount of time doing things martha stewart would do

i stitched this journal together with some embroidery floss sitting in my drawer and then cut up paint chips from when my mom painted the house and decorated it with them

and it’s really cute and i like it a lot!!!