Mar 25
I just finished two new books, and I’ve used up all the signatures I made so it’s time to sew some more. To make the cover of this book, I started with a piece of green and black calico. I collaged a painted layer of paper towel over that. You can see the holey-honeycomb texture …
Mar 21
The cloth for this book was a piece of indigo batik cloth that I bought in Japan. I had just enough for a baby’s bath yukata, and when my babies grew out of it, I saved the cloth. The transparent rainbow embroidered overlay is something I picked up in the scrap bin at Jo Ann’s, …
Mar 18
This is a book I made for Jeff Vandermeer, one of my Clarion teachers. Like the others, it’s approx. 3″ x 4″x 1/2″. I wanted something a little surreal, a little weird, and the sort of Victorian-era artwork makes it slightly steampunk.   Originally the cover was meant to have a cat’s head on a geisha’s …
Mar 16
This is a book I made for Ann Vandermeer. I knew I was going to see her and wanted to give her a book, so I made something a little weird. The cover is Chinese New Year’s money pasted over a muslin background for strength. I pasted a nearly translucent piece of cotton cloth over …
Mar 15
I don’t have anything finished right now, so I thought I would post some tiles that I made last year. These are hand made tiles, slip trailed with neutral colored slip from a jacquard bottle. After I bisque fired them, I used the slip trails as a border for the glazes. If I were to do …
