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Binding books again...
Aug. 22nd, 2008 09:02 amRecent things that make me grin:
*- Using the digital equivalent of a Bic pen and copy paper* to lay out text for printing as signatures for a book, and everything coming out right. Yes, there are programs (surely even open source programs!) that will impose things FOR me. That's not the point.
*-Starting my day with a dremel and the smell of sawdust, and getting nice neat holes with no cover-paper-fluff and no chewed-up splinteryness.
*-Doing a commission for a friend who knows how to give data (and remembering to ask for other data from this friend--I'm learning!). The binding for that one's going to be based on the reproductions I've seen of the Stonyhurst Gospel--yet another double-needle coptic stitch, but this time with wood boards instead of my usual gessoed museum-board, covered over in leather and with endbands sewn on. Yay, broadening my horizons! So really, this one book's going to be two, since I want to make a small mockup first to be sure of what I'm doing.
~sigh~ Life is good.
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* - (A greater fan of the comic itself, correct me if I've got my mythology wrong.) If memory serves, when James O'Barr sat down to exorcise his demons (more or less) and create The Crow, he didn't wait to accumulate sleek bristol or fancy art pens; he used what he had to hand--a Bic and some copy paper.
I call it mythology because whether this is the truth of the matter or my romanticised memory of a retelling, that tidbit has been a great inspiration to me.
*- Using the digital equivalent of a Bic pen and copy paper* to lay out text for printing as signatures for a book, and everything coming out right. Yes, there are programs (surely even open source programs!) that will impose things FOR me. That's not the point.
*-Starting my day with a dremel and the smell of sawdust, and getting nice neat holes with no cover-paper-fluff and no chewed-up splinteryness.
*-Doing a commission for a friend who knows how to give data (and remembering to ask for other data from this friend--I'm learning!). The binding for that one's going to be based on the reproductions I've seen of the Stonyhurst Gospel--yet another double-needle coptic stitch, but this time with wood boards instead of my usual gessoed museum-board, covered over in leather and with endbands sewn on. Yay, broadening my horizons! So really, this one book's going to be two, since I want to make a small mockup first to be sure of what I'm doing.
~sigh~ Life is good.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* - (A greater fan of the comic itself, correct me if I've got my mythology wrong.) If memory serves, when James O'Barr sat down to exorcise his demons (more or less) and create The Crow, he didn't wait to accumulate sleek bristol or fancy art pens; he used what he had to hand--a Bic and some copy paper.
I call it mythology because whether this is the truth of the matter or my romanticised memory of a retelling, that tidbit has been a great inspiration to me.
