One of my many passions is bookmaking. I love to feel really nice paper, working with lots of colors and textures. I long for the beginning of a new year to take a couple weeks off from making pottery to make BOOKS of all sizes! I hand paint the paper used to make the book cover and use handmade paper in some of the assembly of each book. The binding is hand stitched along the open edge using the Coptic stitch. This stitch dates back to the late 2nd Century. Invite a couple friends over and it's a bookmaking party! Scott always gets confused because I work on taxes during this time also, so when I say I am working on books he never knows which ones I am talking about. So it's been books in every direction for the last couple weeks.
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