Making the Book

 Although the subject of the first chapter was to make a book to contain work, it was apparent to me, fairly early on, that none of the books I made would be big enough to contain my work. So alongside working on the modules I was also making a large enough book to hold all the work produced in this module. This post is simply a quick run through that process.

Making individual pages with pockets on both sides for containing work. Also a pocket page in glassine paper for holding templates and small items of work:

I bound the edges in wide masking tape, and used some of the images produced for one of the chapters to decorate the pages:

Adding coursework into the pockets:

Front and back covers

Possibly I enjoyed the Keith Haring figures above all, so I made a front and a back cover using the templates I made for that particular chapter:

Back cover: on black paper, using acrylic white ink (for calligraphy and figures) and a spot of gilding in the centre:

Front cover: using a simple sixties floral motif in Neocolour ii with figures in vermillion acrylic (a glaze was added to these before the book was bound:

Once made, the covers were mounted on card with edges and side for binding covered with masking tape

Binding the book

To support the binding, and allow the book to open flat, I made thin strips of mount card to be bound in between each layer:

Having decided on a sewn binding, I marked up the pages accordingly and secured mountcard strips to page with bulldog clips:

Sewing the pages together along with the mountcard was a nightmare for my figures but I got there in the end:

Front cover 

Open pages lying flat

Back cover

Claire Gordon

17/12/2020