Last spring, when I saw Elissa Campbell's posts about the Chinese Thread Books that she was making, they reminded me that this was structure that I had been intending to explore. Elissa expressed, in her posts, that she just couldn't stop making them. I didn't understand what she meant by that at the time, but, wow, I…
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I first heard about the Chinese Thread Book from my sister-in-law in early February, 2013. Apparently textile collectors had known about them for some time before that, but this was probably about the time people in the book arts started to notice them. Her email mentioning them included a link to a textile forum with…
Zhen Xian Bao - Chinese Thread Book - Layer #5 by Janet Hickey (8 1/2" x 13" open)
Posts about Based on Chinese Thread Book written by Paula Beardell Krieg
Posts about Zhen Xian Bao written by Paula Beardell Krieg
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Reflections on life as a curator, researcher and arts writer. Also known as #wordgirl, making books, living with invisible illness and "connecting the dots that people can't see" (Richard Hsu, TEDxShanghai)...
The origami forum with the image of Laurent Sui's gift for Madame Burgos (see previous post) mentioned a book by Maying Soong, The Art of Chinese Paper Folding. It even provided a link to an on-line copy which I immediately downloaded. If you are interested in the whole book, you can download a copy from…
Chinese Thread Book Part 2: Further Instructions and Dragon Books Thanks to someone who saw my first post on thread books, I was able to get an email address for Ruth Smith ([email protected]) and contact her about her books. She has four different instruction booklets for making different types of projects. I ordered books 1…
Zhen Xian Bao
I can't believe my good luck. I've been reading about the Chinese Thread Book, devouring anything in print that I could find about it, scouring the internet then just thinking about and trying to make sense of this structure. It didn't even occur to me that I might actually get my hands on an authentic Zhen…
SFCB is a bookbinding and letterpress studio offering workshops, events, and exhibitions that promote traditional book arts and experimental book forms.
SFCB is a bookbinding and letterpress studio offering workshops, events, and exhibitions that promote traditional book arts and experimental book forms.
Chinese thread book from Moote Points - not leather but very interesting idea.
Posts about how to construct Zhen Xian Bao written by Paula Beardell Krieg
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"I would often tell people that there are are "hundreds of ways to make books" and I guess I wanted to prove it to myself!", replied Rhonda Miller of My Handbound Books to me when I had asked her about her crazy project and a permission to write about it. I'm constantly think
A quick look at an easy box for using with Zhen Xian Bao, Chinese Thread Books, Cards, or other paper arts creations.
My name is Elissa and I can't stop making the Chinese Sewing Box.As I mentioned in this post, I wanted to make the structure using reversible Unryu. So that's what I did.I have a nice stash of the stuff - the colors are bright and it has a lovely texture. While the paper starts out a bit stiff, it softens as
