Altered Books

I love making books from scratch, but sometimes the hard cover of an existing book inspires me to work directly into its pages. 

 For this one I took pages from a music theory book and crafted them into a paper accordion. I removed all of the pages out of another book and cut down the cover to the size of the accordion.

 The following images are from an altered book I made after finding a magazine on 100 photographs that shaped history. I wasn't fond of looking at the pictures in a magazine form, so I cut them all out with the corresponding information, and sewed them into pages with hardware and lace.

Scrollllls!

When I see odd bits of hardware like shower curtain hooks or door knobs, I usually immediately think of making scrolls:

IKEA map closed.

I found this glass door handle at an antique store and knew it had to be a scroll!

I made the paper with flax fiber and bound it with a leather cover.

Here is my grad thesis paper. I actually made two of these; one for ACAD's archives and one for myself because I was too sad letting it go.

Map of IKEA done in collagraph printing.

Coptic Binding

Bookshelf made from recycled floor boards, full of handmade books and scrolls.

The perfect sketchbook! (Well, for me anyway) Complete with leather, suede, and hand made bronze hardware.

I made all the paper in this book out of abaca and flax fibers. It's full of war based sketches, of course. 

Cover and pages are made from my lithography prints.

My first coptic bound book!