Photo. Kit Miller

Wednesday 4 September 2019

Marigolds and Hogweed















Small Hand Stitched Books

I have made quite a few small books over the years. Some are plain and some have stitched or printed pages. This one has a stitched circle of the same size and colour on each page.
 Simplicity and repetition are fascinating to me. A minimal gallery space is not always the most interesting, but there is something quite delicious about almost not there.


 The books made of rusted paper are a lot busier although I have added nothing to them. I rusted layout paper then soaked it in tea. The cover of this one is plain paper.

 The paper was wrapped around tin cans using diluted vinegar. Using plain water does work but the process is longer and it seems to me that the colours are a bit duller. The longer the paper is left wet and exposed to the rust, the more fragile it becomes.
 The paper is lovely to handle. It rustles like dry leaves and although thoroughly rinsed it sometimes retains a faint smell of rust.