If you've been following along with my Textile Explorations posts you'll know that I have been making 10cm square samples of different techniques. I ended up with 40+ squares.
You may have been wondering what I was going to do with them. Or maybe you haven't but I'm going to tell you anyway. I used 26 of them to make two exploding books!
First I cut squares of heavy duty Lutradur. For the first book I melted the edges of the squares before painting them. Then I folded them.
They fit together like this so that the whole thing can be closed up and explode!
I tried out the squares in different places
And finally settled on this combination
I painted the second set of lutradur squares with copper coloured acrylic paint.
As with the other set I cut 8 of the squares down to 9cm square and then cut them in half diagonally.
I assembled the whole thing with doublesided tape.
And what have I done with the remaining squares?
Well, that's for another day.
Thanks for joining me today
Bernice
Love the colors. I want to try this. It looks fun. Thanks Bernice!
ReplyDeleteWhat a delightful and interesting way of bringing all those experiments together so you can see them alongside each other. Rather like a book box of jewels. I look forward to seeing what happens with the final set
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