Elizabeth Welsh
Paper-making & book binding
The Birth of a Book short film
I stumbled across a truly beautiful short film/clip detailing the process of book production the other day. It is shot, directed and edited by the talented Glen Milner and was, originally, a clip for The Daily Telegraph. Focusing on traditional book-binding procedures and techniques, Leed’s very own Smith-Settle Printers are producing, here, a hardback copy … Continue reading
Paper-making: Autoconstruccion
A few weeks ago, I found this paperwork – ‘Autoconstruccion’ – at the Tate Modern: The artist is Abraham Cruzvillegas, and the artwork is created out of a collection of receipts, napkins, tickets, drawings, postcards, significant images from the newspaper and other collected paper pieces painted over with striking red wall paint. Cruzvillegas calls them … Continue reading
Binding
A while ago I shared some of my paper-making activities, so I thought I would show you some more paper-binding-book things along that line and post some simple cards that I have made recently. I have optimistic plans to become incredibly industrious and do some serious binding for a couple of Christmas notebooks for certain … Continue reading
Papermaking
While I have been away, I have been intermittently attempting to perfect my skills in my papermaking. Just a couple of photos of my processes. The wet paper slurry in my deckle (lovingly made by my partner, Guy): The paper sheet couched on a piece of felt: I have been trying to get the paper … Continue reading
