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Thursday Jun 07, 2012
Episode 81: This is a Slip Case?
Thursday Jun 07, 2012
Thursday Jun 07, 2012
Clamshell boxes and slipcases. Dresses for books. Both are fun to include in the price of a handmade book but one causes a considerable amount of stress and frustration - at least for me it does - while the other, uh, doesn't. After struggling through two clamshell boxes (you can hear about it, if you wish, below), I made a slipcase. Compared to the clamshell box, slipcases slip together much more easily. Nothing moves, for one. And I can visualize the completed box much easily. In fact, I made my first slipcase in less than an hour. The first clamshell took me maybe a grueling four hours.
The cover paper is the same as on the last clamshell box I made but without the small wavy design. I used the same paper with the Line 'Em Up, Dano book (Episode 76.) I like to use it because it's free. You can't go wrong with free. I like to practice with material that doesn't cost anything - I hope I don't run out before I perfect Something, eh? If I screw up anything I'm making with free material I don't feel as upset, frustrated, and depressed as when I use my own hard-earned cash for store-bought material. I'd better get better at making stuff soon, eh.
The book in the slipcase was made some time ago. But still in this century. It has Japanese-style paper which was probably designed in another century. It's rough to the touch plus has the neat design. The book has ten signatures of four sheets each for about 160 pages. The first sheet of paper in each section is green while the rest are your regular white so the spine looks mostly green. It is coptic stitched with black thread with five stations which means it can open quite wide and you can use the entire page, if you feel so inclined. It also has red endpapers just to spice things up a bit and to increase the colorfulness of it. As if the cover paper wasn't colorful enough. It's A5 (81/2" by 6") in size. It's a blank notebook.
If you want, you can ask me for it. Just email tedorigawa.bookmakers@gmail.com with Line 'Em Up, Dano! in the subject line and I'll send it to you With the Slipcase! Won't that be cool? The first request I get gets it.
This week we have music with our audio. The tune - not the entire song but just a couple of bits - is called Overland Blues and it's by the Yoshida Brothers who play the shamisen and are quite popular in Japan. And elsewhere, it seems. To listen to the entire song, click the link below. With the music, the drama is longer than usual. It's a little over four minutes long instead of the usual two or three. Is that right? I think so. Enjoy. Music:Yoshida Brothers "Overland Blues" (mp3) from "Best of Yoshida Brothers - Tsugaru Shamisen" (Domo Records)
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