Heres another idea but this time I shaded it. i didnt think the red and purple needed it, but the green and blue did, not having enough contrast. Have yet to make up this one.
pages yet to fill in in the future.
Thursday, 5 January 2012
making books
High priority this week is to sort through all my "stuff" which was removed from my study to make a bedroom for my daughter returning from UK. When I have finished I will post some before and after pics. In my sorting I found some things I made when I belonged to a Calligraphy group in Melbourne, one of which was a mini concertina book. I am quite into concertina books at present, having just completed one with tangles in it. Recently I have been creating inchies, so thought I would put a strip in one of these little books, except I made the tangles one and a half inches square.
Heres another idea but this time I shaded it. i didnt think the red and purple needed it, but the green and blue did, not having enough contrast. Have yet to make up this one.
Not long after I began to create zentangles last year, I wanted to keep all my tangles in one place. I started doing them in a visual diary, but that soon filled up. I wanted to make something which would have more room and the idea of a concertina book developed. I decided on a size which would be easy to use and made a trial page, long enough to contain 5 pages of 6 x 4cm squares on each page and on both sides = 60 tangles a page! Once I had completed 4 pages I decided to think about putting it together, which was a bit of a challenge. Searching the net produced no suggestions. So I began the experiment and explore phase. Eventually I bound the eventual 8 pages together with material, sewing in the pages. This was attached to a cover made from mountboard and covered with cotton fabric. Results follow...
Heres another idea but this time I shaded it. i didnt think the red and purple needed it, but the green and blue did, not having enough contrast. Have yet to make up this one.
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What great ideas! Thanks for sharing. I like how the zentangles connect from tile to tile in the smaller book. And what a great display idea to show lots of tiles - I'm ready to try making my own book/journal this year so find this particularly inspiring.
ReplyDeleteThanks Terrie, glad you have been inspired. Thanks for your encouragement
ReplyDeleteThis is a cool way to journal your tangles. Could make a tutorial on how you made this book? I would like to make one of my own. I like the way you bound the pages together to fit 60 tangles within your book. I just got interested in bookbinding last year. I should post a picture of my 2nd bound book I created from scratch from sewing the pages or signatures together. The outside cover is a close up of my face and I titled it "Cookie's Facebook". I made a book with my face on the cover. "Get it"? I made this book as a joke toward the chat group called facebook and here I joined facebook a year later. I should post a photo of that in my facebook account as well.
ReplyDeleteLovely stuff as usual Annie! x x
ReplyDeleteHello from Canada! I love your tangle books. I'm not sure how you attached the pages or sewed them in , but I sure do like them. I'm looking forward to checking into your blog again and looking back to see everything! Take care,
ReplyDeleteTrish
Very nice ideas - both the small fold out books, and the way you organize tangles. Lovely, and inspiring.
ReplyDeleteI love your tangle books! I agree with a previous comment - instructions, please! :)
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