{"id":194,"date":"2009-06-26T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2016-07-22T18:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:48:58","slug":"little-boston-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/little-boston-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Miniature Book of Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was working in a library a few summers ago I came across a beautiful old map of Boston from 1858 &#8211; I made several copies of it, and one of them I used on the cover of this book.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-191 size-full\" title=\"Miniature Book of Boston South Station made by bookbinder Ruth Bleakley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1447.jpg\" alt=\"Miniature Book of Boston South Station made by bookbinder Ruth Bleakley\" width=\"430\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1447.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1447-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1447-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/> After transferring the image on to silk using a solvent transfer method, I painted it with inks. I featured South Station because I&#8217;d often traveled through it on trips to Worcester from the Cape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-193 size-full\" title=\"Miniature Book of Boston South Sation - Here you can see the tiny little gold and green end band stitched onto the top of the textblock. There's a matching one on the bottom.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1455.jpg\" alt=\"Miniature Book of Boston South Sation - Here you can see the tiny little gold and green end band stitched onto the top of the textblock. There's a matching one on the bottom.\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1455.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1455-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1455-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/> Here you can see the tiny little gold and green endband I stitched onto the top of the textblock. There&#8217;s a matching one on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-192 size-full\" title=\"Miniature Boston Book by Ruth Bleakley - Here's the little book with a quarter next to it for scale - so tiny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1454.jpg\" alt=\"Here's the little book with a quarter next to it for scale - so tiny!\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1454.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1454-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp1454-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> Here&#8217;s the little book with a quarter next to it for scale &#8211; so tiny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was working in a library a few summers ago I came across a beautiful old map of Boston from 1858 &#8211; I made several copies of it, and one of them I used on the cover of this book. After transferring the image on to silk using a solvent transfer method, I painted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,99],"tags":[73,75,39,247,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}