I found this on pinterest, but can’t find a source for it, so don’t know who made it.
Category: Bookmaking
Serene Ng’s My Wild Things
Serene Ng’s Where My Wild Things Are. She says
Inspired by Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ — one of my all time favourite stories. The persona here is Bunnyman who embarks on a journey of self-discovery and indeterminacy. It will go wherever floats its boat.
Maria Lai’s fiber books
Maria Lai (1919-2013) was an Italian fiber artist who made a lot of books. Here are a few of them, with lots more on her website. There are also a set of youtube videos (sadly for me, in Italian) showing her work and process.
Embroidered Books by Michelle Wilson
Since I went to the meeting of my local thread and fabric study group, I’ve been looking at sewn books with renewed interest. Right away I found Michelle Wilson‘s hand-embroidered accordion book, Pennsylvania. She says
This unique artist book is a tribute to the state of my birth, created as I prepared to move across the country. My original intention was for this book to reveal some insight about travel and transitions. However, I was reminded that enlightenment is part of the experience, and will not reveal itself before the journey begins.
The folded sheet at the end of the book says
The place where I was born was named for a forest and a man,
my origin within its blood-red soil, my roots deeper than I know,
threads that bind me to this land.
See all her books here.
Sewn books of Louise-Marie Cumont
There was lots of sewing in evidence at Codex. I particularly liked Louise-Marie Cumont’s books. All hand stitched and pieced, they are colorful and fun. Here are the ones I got to see. More here.
The Man in the Square:
The House, variation in four colors:
Suzanne Moore’s A Musings
For this year’s Codex, through Instagram, I got to see some books in progress before the fair. Calligrapher Suzanne Moore has a new book called “A Musings,” a book of all embellished A’s. Jessica Spring of Springtide Press letterpress printed one page and posted pictures of the lock-up and printed page — before Suzanne worked on it. Jessica told me she didn’t recognize the pages after Suzanne finished with them! Suzanne laughed when I told her that. The finished book is beautiful — I couldn’t find a snap of the page Jessica printed, but I did find a few other spreads. They are below, after Jessica’s. I asked Suzanne if she was going to do the entire alphabet, and again she laughed and said she’s considering only one other letter: Q.
