Last year at the Oak Knoll Book Fest, I met the 2 women who run the Virginia Commonwealth University book arts program. I noticed recently a nice blog post about some of their library book arts holdings. Here are just 2 (see them all here).
Alisa Banks’s Edges (“Edges” is part of a series of altered books that feature hair crocheted onto the edges of the books’ pages.)
Scott McCarney’s “Diderot/Doubleday/Deconstruction. Volume IV” (created … by carving a 20th-century Doubleday Encyclopedia to reveal images of workers representing the book trades from Diderot’s 18th-century “L’Encyclopédie.”)