One Rough Customer
Posted in Blank Notebooks, Coptic Binding on Aug 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Tactile. Touchy-touchy. Very light.
These are a few words that describe this book. As you can see, the cover threads are bare; you can see through them to the rough yellow paper I used as endpapers.
I bought the red cover paper a long time ago and have been trying to figure out what to do with it ever since. Then I bought the paper recently that has become the pages.
And here you can see the stems and leaves stuck in the pages themselves. The phrase “stems and leaves” might remind some of our older readers of the sixties when the exact phrase was “stems and seeds” but the idea is similar.
To continue, this paper is rough, has the stems and leaves in it and is one folio. One page folded over once. There are seven of these pages so the whole book is 28 pages.
Here is a closer look at how the pages are more torn than cut nicely. The look and feel of this book just screams out for someone to touch it.
Now I need a poet and a calligrapher to add some content. Or maybe an artist with a calligrapher’s pen that will draw some worthy portraits or pictures. Or some phone numbers and turn it into an address book.
Noooooo!
