When I said I’d rebind my book tomorrow …

I didn’t mean at 3 a.m. But that’s when I did it. I had meant to take ‘before and after’ photos, but I forgot until I had deconstructed the book.

So you will have to imagine a rather lumpy loop of beads down the left hand side.

 

 

 

I  used a long stitch binding from Alisa Golden’s ‘Creating Handmade Books’, although I modified it in the rebind, to make it a bit firmer.

 

The pages are made of various papers, mostly the wax batik technique from ‘Contemporary Textiles’. Unfortunately I cut the pages a bit small.

 

When I'd finished the book, inspired by the image I’d chosen for today’s achromatic picture, I mucked about with various free photo-editing programmes on the web.

This  was the image I started with –  a building at the Weald and Downland Museum.

 

 

 

 

Some time ago I changed it to black and white and used ‘Amazing Circles’ at Dumpr to do this.

 

 

 

 

I've posted before about the Hockneyizer. So I Hockneyized it. Looks a bit unstable now!

 

 

 

 

 

And then for good measure I Warholized it.

 

 

 

 

 

And I’ve just discovered picnik, which lets you do other interesting things with your pictures.  Like this.

 

 

 

 

This afternoon I set fire to things.These things to be precise. Some of the wax batik papers and some extras. I think Wensleydale thought I’d turned to arson in my old age.

Not, perhaps, what you ought to do when you’ve only had a few hours sleep.

This was another suggestion from Contemporary Textiles – Sue gave us a lot to do this time. [I haven't got round to the hammering yet.]

The burned papers became pages in this. [Lest you think I have been remarkably productive, the covers were already made.] The papers made me think of the sea so I used a stick binding [but it’s really a bit of beach-combed twine]  and some shells.