Cigar Box Wednesday

Something different for Cigar Box
Wednesday - not what's in them - but
what you can do with them.
These are examples of wonderful
journals, made by Pam Sussman,
using cigar box lids as covers. A
coptic binding forms the spine and
holds in the signatures of paper.

Speaking of Pam Sussman...

I See London I See France

... here are the books that I made in Pam's classes two different years at ArtFest. The one above is a dos-a-dos book - two books in one that meet in the middle. The theme was London for one book and Paris for the other (what fun digging through the ephemera stash). Pages were made of Lucite, copper mesh, book board and copper sheets, finished with a Coptic binding.

detail of above

Wrapped and Woven

This one has covers we made by weaving decorative paper strips and fibres. After assembling several signatures of luscious handmade paper, it's finished off with a running stitch binding that is then woven through. Result - a handsome blank book just waiting for pen and brush!