When you start to wonder if you can trust someone or not, that is when you already know you don’t.

Raw Linen and Pit Fired Bead Closure

Back

Unbound

When You

Left–Start To; Right–Wonder

While writing this post, I realized the code on the next pages is incorrect. The first clue was when I paused to read it and it didn’t make sense. A closer look, I found that the code is from the bottom to top. The page was bound in upside down and back to front.

Repairing the book will be a challenge. I bound the pages together at the fold, then used PVA to glue them together. What I thought was a nice little book has now become something else.

Will the pages survive being pried apart to bind the book together?

Left–If You

Left–Can Trust; Right–Someone

Right–Or Not

Left–Comma; Right–That Is

Left–When You; Right–Already

Left–Know You; Right–Don’t

Right–Period

Notes Envelope

Materials–monoprints, paper, fiber, PVA, pit-fired beads.

Scale–8.5 cm x 9 cm x 1.5 cm Before taking it apart to repair it.

Repair Starts

I was able to pry the pages apart for rebinding the book.

I wasn’t able to remove the cardstock from the cover monoprint. The cardstock was used to reinforce the front and back covers. I was able to open them, so should be able to stitch to the rest of the book. Time will tell.

Repair Complete

The stitching is a tad looser than the original binding. I originally used UHU stick glue. After reassembling and binding the book together, I added PVA to the cover.

I also used PVA to affix the folded pages together. The reason I do that, is to prevent the viewer from seeing the back side of the embroidery. Because PVA is wet compared, the back of the embroidery became wet. After drying it shows a bit through to the front and the pages look a bit crumpled.

Crumpled and messy would be okay if that was the intent. It would be okay if all of the pages were consistently so. Lesson Learned

I wonder what would happen if I applied a layer of PVA to the paper before embroidery? It would make the paper stronger. I suspect it would also be easier to affix the folded pages together because the paper would no longer be porous. Maybe two sided tape would work.

Palm Book with the George Orwell quote–The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

The code is based on Morse Code. The diagonal lines above the line replace dots; the diagonal lines below replace the dashes.

Materials–paper, monoprints, fiber, pit-fired beads.

Scale–Bound 5″ x 2″ x 1.25″ Open 5″ x 22″ x .5″