Artists book

Found this unique illustrated fabric book in the archives of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York. The English translation of the title is “Ode to Forgetting”. The pages are composed of fa…

I am still trying out different ways of working in enamel using this concertina book form as a vehicle for my experiments. I have used my own photographs of early entomological collections making them into enamel transfers. Then I have sand blasted label shapes and beetles into the enamel surface. Rust will happen!!

William Cobbett's A French Grammar, published in 1829. Artist Kyra Clegg took this sad, battered old book and turned it from thi...

La inspiración :: 5 Libros de artista, de Kirsten Hall. Interesante diseños de…

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Handbound artist's book

After literally tripping over my stash of fabrics, papers, and found objects recently, I am on a mission to downsize. And so I'm looking for ways to use and re-use items I already have, upcycling them into art or useful objects. 'Domestic Bee' by Cas Holmes. Upcycled fabric, newsprint, and found papers, with stitch. I've…

From mushrooms to cheese to mini books - here's six of the stranger books to be found in the collection of the Bodleian Libraries Rilke's mushroom spores Mushroom spores growing out of the pages of a book are usually the...

Way back in November, on an airplane coming home from a family Thanksgiving celebration, I said to myself, "Now, what am I going to do?...