{"id":1326,"date":"2012-10-03T13:07:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T17:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2012-11-12T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T18:40:19","slug":"part-4-of-a-collaborative-artists-book-with-my-friend-chelsea-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/part-4-of-a-collaborative-artists-book-with-my-friend-chelsea-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 4 of A Collaborative Artist’s Book With My Friend Chelsea Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is the fourth of a six-part series detailing the assembly of a collaborative book between myself and my friend Chelsea,\u00c2\u00a0a talented illustrator as well as\u00c2\u00a0print and fiber artist<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(start at Part 1 here<\/a>)! If you want to make sure you catch all the steps, you can subscribe via email<\/a>, or RSS feed<\/a>. (or just keep checking back, I’ll have a new step every other day)<\/p>\n

Part 1<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 2<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 3<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 4\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 5<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|Part 6<\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo 1:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0I cut the handmade paper I used for the cover to size, allowing 3\/4″ overlap around the sides of the cover board. I wanted to use a highly textured paper to mimic the pebbly surface of a boulder. This one was handmade in Thailand. I used a combination of wheat starch paste and PVA to glue it on, and here I am burnishing it with a bone folder.<\/p>\n

Photo 2:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Applying my glue, a mixture of wheat starch paste and PVA to one side of the accordion to be glued to to the cover. I got this giant paste brush which makes gluing covers a lot easier.<\/p>\n

Photo 3:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Burnishing the page onto the cover with a bone folder. I use waxed paper between the paper and the folder to prevent marks from the bone folder and to prevent any ink smearing that might happen from the glue-dampened paper. I leave the waxed paper in as I press the book, so it won’t stick to itself.<\/p>\n

Part 1<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 2<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 3<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 4\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 5<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|Part 6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is the fourth of a six-part series detailing the assembly of a collaborative book between myself and my friend Chelsea,\u00c2\u00a0a talented illustrator as well as\u00c2\u00a0print and fiber artist\u00c2\u00a0(start at Part 1 here)! If you want to make sure you catch all the steps, you can subscribe via email, or RSS feed. (or just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,98,99],"tags":[134,46,35,215],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}