Monday 1 February 2016

Chapter 9

Whilst handmade paper edges have wonderful ragged and organic edges it is sometimes desirable to have a neater and finished edge for a front page or a cover.

It was therefore our task to look into stitched edges bearing in mind our research and lettering ideas.

For this chapter I needed to find out how to get a clean fold especially as my paper is handmade. To do this I needed to score the paper. I measured and marked where the fold belonged and whilst holding a ruler along the marks I ran my bone folder along the ruler hard enough to make a pressure score or groove. Without moving the ruler I folded the paper up by running the bone folder on the outside of the fold, pressing it harshly against the ruler.I then removed the ruler and and flattened the fold by running the bone folder over it. [ details from Cover to Cover by Shereen La Platz]. This worked brilliantly and produced a beautiful neat fold.

First thoughts about stitched edges:

thoughts on stitched edges

Samples 1 and 2:

text samples 1and 2

Sample 1

edge 17

And reverse:

reverse 17

Sample 2

edge 1a

And reverse:

edge 2a

Sample 3

edging 3atext further edges

And reverse:

edge 3a reverse

I used some spare white handmade paper produced earlier in the module but I appreciate that sticking to my colour scheme would have been more effective.

It was aslo interesting to see the right and reverse sides.

Sample 4

insertion stitches 1text inserted  stitches

I really like the effects of these two inserted stitches [beaded and threaded] when they decorate the folded page:

beaded insertion uprightinsertion threaded upright

Sample 5

A combination of machine and handstitching – beautiful together.

edging

6 comments:

  1. These are gorgeous Carrie! I particularly like samples 2 and 5. I also like how you have used the beads in sample 3. I love your colour scheme and your paper is beautiful.

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  2. These are gorgeous Carrie! I particularly like samples 2 and 5. I also like how you have used the beads in sample 3. I love your colour scheme and your paper is beautiful.

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    1. Thank you Catherine, so lovely to receive your comments as they always spur me on!

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  3. Hope you are enjoying the paper making as much as I did. As Catherine said, I love your colour scheme. I love the samples, especially the edging on No. 5. I have just done a ruby red square for our Guild 40th Anniversary exhibition in April and just realised I have used the edging on your sample 3! Keep smiling :-)

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  4. I had a look at your samples from Chapter 6 Carrie, they are all so beautiful, I can't tell you which one I love the most. This seems like a very time-consuming chapter but worth every minute

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    1. Thank you Pascale. Yes it was time consuming but so lovely to do. I hope you enjoy it. X

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