“Book of Hours” is finished

I have used a single page binding for this book, with a strip of burlap, to continue the theme of the Middle Ages.

The front cover is made of black velour, and the light catches it, it’s not so mottled in reality.

The brooch I made in order to complement the theme.

The book is made up of antique and vintage lace, silk ribbon,

reproduction of antique manuscript, printed on canvas

Hand painting, machine embroidery,

vintage laces, tassels

Hand painting on stencil design, silk ribbons and antique button

Hand embroidery

Hand painted Illuminated page

Original vintage church Gregorian chant

Extract from the Morte d’Arthur

Embroidered lace

Silk ribbon, lace, embroidered cotton, vintage buttons

Extract from Morte d’Arthur

Back cover with silk embellishment and lace

Side view

Top view

It is available for sale on Etsy.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/SocratesArtWorks

Fabric journal Round Robin

Here are my pages for the fabric journal Round Robin. The theme is Vintage lace. I picked “A young woman in Paris”.

My great-grand mother was a hat-maker in Paris around the turn of the century, and it seemed a fitting theme for this vintage lace.

Here is the front cover:

The inside front cover:

I made a tag to explain my theme, with a picture of my own great-grand-mother:

                 

We were to make the covers, and one set of pages, front and back. Our journals will travel around the US and to Australia, so we didn’t bind our pages to keep the weight to a minimum. These are my pages:

 

This is the inside of the back cover:

This is the back cover.

Can you tell that this is going to be a gorgeous Round Robin. All the artists involved are amazing. I cannot wait to see what they’ll do in my book.

And I so look forward to working in their books. Some of the other themes are: “A stitch in time”, “Vintage Gypsy”, “couples”, and more.

Everything and the kitchen sink

It’s true, I’ve been having so much fun this summer, I have not posted for a long time. But I certainly have been productive. So here goes:

First, I made a gorgeous book for my friend Lillian, with her fabric and choice of ribbon. It’s for our Asia RR.

I also made one for Sue. I use the french ribbon binding technique, so you can open the book flat when you’re working in it. Don’t you love Sue’s cover? It’s really beautiful in person:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also took Mary Ann Moss’s new online class. Of course it’s fabulous, all sorts of new binding techniques, she’s a gem. Here’s one book I made for a present. I used an old german dictionary which I gutted, and I replaced the pages with vintage ledger paper and some pages from a 1829 book!!!! It was fun!

I also signed up for a Cabinet Card swap, where we decorated the cards on the theme of clocks and Time. We were to send 7 and receive 7 back, bound in a little book. Here’s my series:

I also entered a fabric journal swap where we were to decorate 15 tags on the theme of Paris and using a dress form. We’re sending our partners a fabric strip, 14x9 and a piece of lace, too, so they can vary the pages in their own book and I’ll receive 14 pieces to make a book. Here are some of my tags. They are larger than normal tags, made of fabric, but they will all fit on the 9x7 pages.

In Mary Ann’s new class, she uses old Victorian photo albums. I found my first one today. This will make a unique journal:

And finally, here’s to Teri, who forwarded an article from CPS, about what to do with what’s left (on your art table at the end of a project)! Fabulous project. It’s 9x12, and I like the way it looks: