The Old Package.

[sharmelon.livejournal.com]

(x-posted to my journal, handmadebooks & craftgrrl)

When I first learned to bind books, I started to make this book, but I put it away, found it today, and finished it. Seven 6-page folded signatures (so 12 pages per signature; you do the math). I used those thick brown paper bags from the supermarkets as end papers, as well as the cover (over matte board). The pages were burned with matches around the edges and were soaked in water (not tea or coffee stained, however; this was just to wash away the excess ashes). Bound together with just plain white sewing thread, and then I had no good glue at the time so I started to stick it together with clear packaging tape. I finished it off today and stuck an extra USPS label on the front and titled it "The Old Package." It's just a blank journal; and I probably won't use it, lol.

front cover




whole cover/spine




close-up: back cover




front endpapers




random pages from inside