making books

It's a bright, sunny cold day with an incredibly blue sky. We went out to breakfast and are now just hanging out. On this date one year ago I was in a class at Sanctuary Arts in Eliot, Maine with Johanna Finnegan- Topitzer. We made several small books, a portfolio to hold them, and a box.
These are the books.

My haiku entry for 2/21/2010 has a mini book with a single signature and a Japanese binding. The cover is the same Japanese floral paper I used on a book. The border is drawn to represent the handstitched bindings. The text refers to the fact that the signature was held in place with inner stitches and the outer stitches were largely decorative.

Inner binding holds
the pages in place if the
outer binding fails.

This photo shows the "portfolio"that holds the small books
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and the silk covered box.