Thursday, 28 February 2013
Sunday, 10 February 2013
The Library of Lost Books - Part III (and IV, V, VI, probably VII too)
I have been dragging this out for some reason (maybe I secretly don't want to send it back?) but here is, finally, an update of what I have been doing for the past few months (all right,
5 months...) IT'S NEARLY FINISHED!
5 months...) IT'S NEARLY FINISHED!
First off, I took apart (!) the lovely book
then I cut down the cover to lantern-slide size (3¼in x 3¼in);
next was the very long process of matching up the original illustrations with
captions taken from all the books involving the Glass family;
captions taken from all the books involving the Glass family;
...pages;
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The Library of Lost Books at The Seventh Manchester Artists' Book Fair October 2012
Where I purchased one the the best things I've seen ever; a little notebook with a hand-knitted Penguin Classics-style cover. This treasure was made by Cally Barker, she has made a whole collection of these, with other such titles as 'Short Stories', 'Work of Fiction' and 'A Classic Novel'. I picked 'A Book of Days' as it was the only one at her stall that she'd used slightly different shades of orange wool to give it a dog-eared look.
November brought The Library of Lost Books Artists' Meetup at The LOLB HQ in Birmingham. I arrived a little late but still got to see a lot of the lovely returned books and speak to some of the other artists. Not to mention spend some time with the spectacular host and and curator/creator of the Project, Susan Kruse!
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putting the illustrations, typewritten captions and book together:
I managed to acquire an original lantern-slide which is really lovely.
I then had some glass cut to lantern-slide size so I can make my own lantern slides. The first one I don't think would work properly if used in a Lanterna Magica, but I quite liked how specimen-like it felt. Two more lantern-slides are in progress.
Another long process was alphabetising all the Proper Nouns in the Glass Family books.
I am now in the process of typing these out...
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The Library of Lost Books at The Seventh Manchester Artists' Book Fair October 2012
Where I purchased one the the best things I've seen ever; a little notebook with a hand-knitted Penguin Classics-style cover. This treasure was made by Cally Barker, she has made a whole collection of these, with other such titles as 'Short Stories', 'Work of Fiction' and 'A Classic Novel'. I picked 'A Book of Days' as it was the only one at her stall that she'd used slightly different shades of orange wool to give it a dog-eared look.
November brought The Library of Lost Books Artists' Meetup at The LOLB HQ in Birmingham. I arrived a little late but still got to see a lot of the lovely returned books and speak to some of the other artists. Not to mention spend some time with the spectacular host and and curator/creator of the Project, Susan Kruse!
*=*=*=*=*=*
putting the illustrations, typewritten captions and book together:
I managed to acquire an original lantern-slide which is really lovely.
I then had some glass cut to lantern-slide size so I can make my own lantern slides. The first one I don't think would work properly if used in a Lanterna Magica, but I quite liked how specimen-like it felt. Two more lantern-slides are in progress.
Another long process was alphabetising all the Proper Nouns in the Glass Family books.
I am now in the process of typing these out...
They will then be cut to lantern-slide sized index cards
to be sorted into these lantern-slide sized tabbed guides;
TBC (SOON)
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