Saturday, July 04, 2009

A New Book Artist is Born

Yesterday I showed my mom how to make book covers and signatures, then bind it all together with coptic binding. Below are photos of her first book. I think it is fabulous!

the front cover

side view of the coptic binding

detail of the binding and signatures

5 comments:

Leslie said...

Absolutely awesome, go Mom! and go on ya for teaching her.

Anonymous said...

Thanks! Now I am excited to try another one sometime.
Mom

leandra said...

Wow! Karen, this is fantastic! Leandra

Seth said...

FIRST book?!?! Amazing!

Mary Buek said...

You are so artistic, and you must have inheritied your abilities from your mom. Is there anything you CAN'T do?