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Sunday Aug 22, 2010
Tedorigawa 53: Sixty
Sunday Aug 22, 2010
Sunday Aug 22, 2010
For the first time in a couple of months - actually almost four months - I made a couple of books. The first one was a mess. What did I expect after a four month layoff? You can't just jump into the deep end of the pool and expect to ride a bicycle. (What?)
My plan was to make a Chinese stab-binding blank notebook with colored thread. A couple of errors were made. By me, of course. First, holes on the wrong side of the paper - I was using printer paper that was going to be thrown away. I folded it over but punched the holes in the closed side when they should've been on the open edge. After re-sewing it correctly I managed to tear the thread. I added tassels because it looked neat and makes it fun to use. Blank notebook, 60 pages, A5 in size.
Book Two was simpler and easier to make. Again, printer paper that was going to be thrown away folded over once and then chopped in half to make an A6-sized pad of paper which is being used to celebrate the number that is 60. Why? Because 60 has a lot of characteristics that other numbers don't have.
It's a composite number with 12 divisors - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60. It's also a highly composite number, a unitary perfect number, a semi-perfect number and is the smallest number divisible by the numbers 1 to 6. Finally, 60 is the sum of a pair of twin primes (29 + 31), and the sum of four consecutive primes (11 + 13 + 17 + 19).
Back to the book: A6-sized paper using a modified Daifuko Cho binding - holes in the top so a merchant could write the day's profit just by lifting up the top and then hanging the book on hook by his bed. Or desk, if he's not weird. Sixty-six pages. The Japanese on the cover is, of course, 60 - pronounced roku-ju six-ten = sixty.
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