Silk book

I bought an Inspiration Pack from Clare Bullock. You know that I have more than enough fabric but I couldn't resist.  I want to use the contents to make a fabric book.

I decided I would use some silk noil that I had for the 'pages'.  I tore it up into 21x10cm pieces.  I used the fabrics from the pack to put together little collages.

Then I realised the silk noil was too thin and needed backing.  I ironed a Vilene interfacing on which I had found in the cupboard.  It's a stabiliser more than a stiffener.  To iron the interfacing I had to remove all the little collages.

Looking at the fabrics I decided it was lacking in texture, and whilst I can add texture through stitch, I thought I would have a rummage through my bits box.

I had tried using little bits of Mistyfuse to bond the collage pieces.  Although it worked it made things a bit flat so I was going to pin everything.  However in the end I used a glue stick!  These collages are not necessarily how they were before I took them off the silk noil.

These pages will fold in half so the finished size of the book will be approximately 10cms square

I plan to stitch on top of thes collages and add other bits of fabric and ephemera as I go along.

So far I've only put together half ot the 'pages'.  I like to have thinking time away from my work.  I shall go back to these and check they are what I want before working on the next 5 pages.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Ziggy zaggy

This week I have been playing with some more with concertina or zigzag books!

I had previously made some monoprints on mixed media paper so that I could make books. Here's the pile of prints and left over collage bits.

I used my own poem A Poetic Conundrum on this one.

I made this into a beach themed book and used words from a scrapbook paper pad

This third one used the words of another of my poems

You can read the poems on this post: Oh my word!

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Happy Easter

Bernice

More concertina

In my last post I showed you the beginning of a new concertina book.

I decided to use the theme of Florida rather than just do abstract painting.  I used some paper napkins I had bought in Florida many years ago and glued them onto the pages.

I worked on the book 4 pages at a time and then opened it up to see what it looked like.

I forgot to take a photo of the first four pages so I have had to crop it from the photo above.

Then I started adding layers of thinned down transparent acrylic paint.

I did the same with each of the sets of 4 pages.

When I had finished all four sets of 4 pages I again opened up the paper to see what it looked like.

Now it's all dry I shall go back to it and add more layers with pens and crayons.  And possibly some more collage papers.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice