water gurgles by
as the fern
shines in the sun
All this poetry started when Valda challenged us to write a quatrain for the newsletter so I wrote one to describe Amanda Degener's workshop, then I submitted several copies for a yahoo papermaking group poetry swap, printed on flax paper of course. I was looking for a poem to go in a book and I discovered the allpoetry website and started taking some online classes, so here I am inflicting my Haiku on my readers. Anyway I finally bound the poems from the swap, I made it difficult for myself by sewing the pages into two concertina strips then coptic binding the concertinas.
Here is a new book featuring a Melbourne landmark the skipping girl vinegar sign in Richmond, I've sewn the text block onto tapes and extended the tapes as a closure.
This is one in progress that I'm making to donate to Curves for the Girls Night In which is fundraising for breast cancer research.
Here are my books from the show with their ribbons.
Nest Book mixed plant fibres, coptic bound.
Oriental Fern Book kozo with fern laminated in cover and endpages, bound with toji binding using hemp string.
Oriental Indigo Book kozo dyed with indigo toji binding with indigo dyed cotton thread.
Byron Bush Book mixed plant fibres with digital images and haiku bound with hemp string and a stick found on the walk in the rainforest near Byron Bay.
And finally a photo of one of the sports teams from my high school years showing off our wonderful sports uniform of Swedish bloomers, I think they were meant to be worn down nearly to our knees but noone did. I was reminded of these when I read a friend's blog bettybloomers.blogspot.com where she is researching the history of women's cycling. By the way I'm not in the photo, I was never good enough to get in any of the school sports teams.
Nest Book mixed plant fibres, coptic bound.
Oriental Fern Book kozo with fern laminated in cover and endpages, bound with toji binding using hemp string.
Oriental Indigo Book kozo dyed with indigo toji binding with indigo dyed cotton thread.
Byron Bush Book mixed plant fibres with digital images and haiku bound with hemp string and a stick found on the walk in the rainforest near Byron Bay.
And finally a photo of one of the sports teams from my high school years showing off our wonderful sports uniform of Swedish bloomers, I think they were meant to be worn down nearly to our knees but noone did. I was reminded of these when I read a friend's blog bettybloomers.blogspot.com where she is researching the history of women's cycling. By the way I'm not in the photo, I was never good enough to get in any of the school sports teams.
No comments:
Post a Comment