{"id":8831,"date":"2022-09-14T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8831"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:56:21","slug":"school-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8831","title":{"rendered":"School Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in graduate school in the 90s, I went junking with a fellow artist. I purchased a couple of realms of kids\u2019 paper for practicing handwriting. <\/p>\n<p>I used several sheets to make signatures to try a new book format. Bamboo yarn was used to tie the signatures together. <\/p>\n<p>The front and back covers were made of blank flash cards.<\/p>\n<p>A band of the flash card paper was used to secure the book. Rather than glue or stitchwork, I used a round head fastener.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote and erased School Days on the cover. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/SchoolDays1_IMG_7827.jpg\" alt=\"Text\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep, that is a Dixon Beginners pencil.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/SchoolDays2_IMG_7829.jpg\" alt=\"Text\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Macrame knots were used to bind the tails together. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/SchoolDays3_IMG_7809.jpg\" alt=\"Text\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/SchoolDays4_IMG_7812.jpg\" alt=\"Text\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I learned three things making this little book: a new binding technique, addition of  macrame, and how to make a wrap closure.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in graduate school in the 90s, I went junking with a fellow artist. I purchased a couple of realms of kids\u2019 paper for practicing handwriting. I used several sheets to make signatures to try a new book format. Bamboo yarn was used to tie the signatures together. The front and back covers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">School Days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-handmade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8836,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions\/8836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}