Today I wanted to share with you one of my all-time favorite handbooks. It has the most organic, touch-me vibe!
This book was featured in the 2012 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors PAGES, shown above. (If you haven’t seen this magazine, you should definitely check it out! I also have a fun tutorial article published in the same issue on how to make an accordion book with envelope pages.)
I love everything about this book! The interior pages have Turkish map-folds so that they explode open. Each page spread was decorated with organic forms made of custom printed tissue paper. (See the upcoming November/December 2012 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors for my tutorial on printing your own custom tissue paper from your artwork. It’s super easy!)
The book has wrap-around covers in four directions – you can see how it opens up below:
And below is the cover with the beaded closure. Check out that amazing texture!
The cover incorporates custom printed tissue paper as well. Here, I’ve used tissue paper to create a large sheet of papercloth (also called fabricpaper) from which the cover was cut:
Watch this blog for a tutorial on creating your own papercloth in early November!