Book making in progress

I have been making some books and finishing off others started at a Francis Pickering workshop. Next term my Year 10 class are going to make their own book when exploring paper and card as part of their Product Design GCSE. They will then be able to use their book to explore their design ideas later on in the course.



Cover made with crumbled brown paper and decorated with encaustic wax, I still want to stitch a design onto the front following a technique learn with Yvonne Brown. The inside pages were tea dyed.



The paper for the cover was made with tissue paper and PVA glue and then both the cover and the pages were coloured with brusho dyes.




These two books were made using transfer dyes applied onto pelmet vilene and again the pages were coloured with brusho dyes and then stitched into with embroidery threads and beads added.



This book cover was coloured first with transfer dyes, but I found the colour to bright to match the pages. So I added some further colour with water colour pencils and stitched into the pelmet vilene with a varigated thread. But I still didn't like it, so I added some scrim and then applied some creative colour sprays from Craftynotions. I now want to add some hand stitching and embellishments.

I also need to stitch all of the pages into the books but need to buy some strong thread at the Festival of Quilts on Thursday.