Woven - Book a Week Project

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    © 2009
  • Dimensions (in inches): 3 x 3 x .5
  • Materials:paper, thread, solvent transfer, ink, pigment, fabric, leather, pigment
  • Collection of: artists collection (available)

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Stiff leaf, or board book binding of cyanotype prints on Rives BFK paper, hand and machine stitching, laserprint transfer text, and ink. Page edges are tinted with yellow pigment, the front and back covers are board covered with hand-printed and painted fabric, end sheets are lino-cuts on Rives BFK, as is front cover label. Spine is covered with embossed yellow leather with edges tinted with dark blue pigment. Seven pages spreads + endsheets.
from the collection Try poems by Cole Swensen © 1999
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