Each year the Canberra Craft Bookbinders' Guild put out a challenge to all members. This year the challenge was to make a wordless book. This was a challenge to me as my definition of a book (especially with my calligraphy background), has words or has been made to write in. The most obvious answer to this challenge was to have blank pages but that seemed a little easy and did not hold much interest for me. Next was to utilize the pages of lovely eco prints I have stored away but I had done that before and so not a challenge to me although it would fit the criteria.
It was when I thought of my topic for this book that I made one page then another and it just grew and grew until one day after 48 pages I said 'that's enough!' I thoroughly enjoyed making marks, embossing, folding paper and sewing into and onto pages. I called the book 'My Place' and it is my interpretation of what is in my life and in the Canberra that I know.
It was when I thought of my topic for this book that I made one page then another and it just grew and grew until one day after 48 pages I said 'that's enough!' I thoroughly enjoyed making marks, embossing, folding paper and sewing into and onto pages. I called the book 'My Place' and it is my interpretation of what is in my life and in the Canberra that I know.