 In my small book collection, I have a double-sided accordion book, “Summer Day | Winter Night” where Claire Van Vliet printed Ruth Fine’s linocuts. It’s exquisitely constructed and has some very nice touches. The linocut was printed on several sheets, then connected together, then folded in half horizontally, and finally folded into an accordion. This hides the seams and allows you to make an infinite length double-sided accordion. There’s a small tab at the end of the accordion to facilitate pulling out & unfolding the book. A similar tab folds over the front cover, giving you a hint of what’s inside.
 For my first model (after spending about a week drawing birds), I tried using a similar structure. The idea was to cut out the shape for the windows using my cutting plotter, fold the paper in half, and affix the tissue with the illustration inside the fold. Turns out that the paper, when folded, can’t be too bulky. I want to use paper I have in my studio, and I discovered that Mohawk Superfine & Arches were too bulky, and my cutting plotter balked at cutting Rives (too fibrous I suspect, although it seems to pass the bulk test). Here’s the model, using Arches paper. There’s a seam between the 2nd & 3rd panels and the 4th & 5th—these contribute to making the structure too bulky to fold properly. Next step is to see if I can make this without the seams.
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