{"id":388,"date":"2009-12-06T20:40:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T00:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2009-12-15T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T02:23:06","slug":"lotus-blossom-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/lotus-blossom-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Blossom Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ruthbleakley\/4164360078\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2618\/4164360078_b8822732e9_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #949494;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ruthbleakley\/4164360078\/\">Lotus Blossom Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/ruthbleakley\/\">MissRuth<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud of this latest hardcover book &#8211; it showcases some of my favorite papers and book cloth.<\/p>\n<p>The book was completely made by me from start to finish &#8211; I hand cut, folded and sewed the pages together, and created the cover out of beautiful hand-stenciled japanese Katezome paper. Originating in the Nara Period (710-794), katagami, or Japanese paper stencil patterns, were first used for applying designs in dye to leather goods such as stirrups and warrior helmets, and later to kimonos and paper. <\/p>\n<p>The spine and corners are made from Japanese silk book cloth and the front cover has a delicate strip of gold paper running along the spine. The top and bottom of the text block feature hand-sewn green endbands. The pages inside hold many secret fun surprises interspersed among the blank pages, and the endpapers are a gorgeous handmade lokta paper printed with delicate gold flowers.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus Blossom Journal Originally uploaded by MissRuth I&#8217;m proud of this latest hardcover book &#8211; it showcases some of my favorite papers and book cloth. The book was completely made by me from start to finish &#8211; I hand cut, folded and sewed the pages together, and created the cover out of beautiful hand-stenciled japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,99],"tags":[73,56,105],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-madeit","tag-book","tag-hardcover","tag-katezome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}