Bookbinding is great fun, creative, a useful craft skill and hand bound notebooks make great gifts, or can be used as visual journals. Recently I have been exploring the book binding sites and discovered a few good tutorials online. Dave’s Book Tutorial is an excellent step by step tutorial with …
Gardens, flora and fauna have long been a source of inspiration to stitchers. Floral themes run through out the history of textiles and embroidery. Many of the early embroidery designs were adapted from early herbals. Stitchers still delight in floral themes today. In 2001 an exhibition that explored the relationship …
I am not sure about you I know in between the bustle of Christmas and holiday season planning I am thinking about next year.Virginia Spiegel is too as she has announced her latest fundraiser for the American Cancer Society on her blog. Collage Mania II will be held in 2008 …
Papiroflexia means “Origami” in Spanish. This is the story of Fred, an Origami artist who as skillful paper folder changes the world.The fairy tale like quality of this small video totally charmed me. The video would not embed here but do follow the link it is really worth it.Created by …
The work of cut paper and assemblage artist Laura Cooperman has me fascinated. It is cut, layered and overlapped to form 3 dimensional architectural designs that are extremely beautiful.
BibliOdyssey has highlighted a wonderful late 12th Century illuminated Armenian Manuscript produced in a Lviv scriptorium. The manuscript online in the Digital Library of Poland. It was a week or so ago (I am catching up with blog reading) so do check it out.
Have you have ever wanted to try your hand at basic book binding? If so this tutorial on how to Make Your Own Moleskine-Like-Notebook illustrates clearly how do so. Photographs are clear and instructions are concise – just like a tutorial should be!
