{"id":605,"date":"2010-02-04T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2014-12-02T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T00:39:48","slug":"birthday-book-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/birthday-book-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Book in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here are some pictures of the process of working on a special commission of a travel journal -\u00c2\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in learning to make your own handmade books, I have post you might like: 5 Great How To Books About Bookbinding<\/a><\/p>\n

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Check out this post\u00c2\u00a0showing the finished book<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some pictures of the process of working on a special commission of a travel journal -\u00c2\u00a0The 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 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98],"tags":[73,130,132,248,249,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}