Here are some pictures of the process of working on a special commission of a travel journal – The blue plaid book cloth is actually a pair of favorite shorts the recipient had to regretfully consign to the rag pile – not any more! Now they’re immortalized as a book’s cover. The toggles are antique brass – I hand sewed them onto the straps which I made of two layers of cloth sewn together on the sewing machine. I attached the straps to the covers by sewing machine BEFORE glueing them down so they’d be extra sturdy. The spine is book cloth, the gold detail is a type of decorative paper.
signatures ready for sewing
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- signatures ready for sewing
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- sewing a combination of french and coptic without tapes
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- stitching on the toggles
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- this is the inside of the finished front cover
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- Front cover with toggles stitched on
More pictures next Monday showing the finished book!
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[...] Sewing Colleen’s Garden Themed Journal – Caterpillar Stitch Another great commission from a local library, this time to create a garden themed journal for their Head of Patron Services, Colleen, who is retiring after 37 years at the library! I’ve done other commissioned works for their employees in the past, including a neat retirement album and an awesome travel journal. [...]