After considering various parts of my heritage, I decided that rather on focusing on a particular country of origin, I was going to do something rather specific to my family. I come from a long line of teachers, readers, writers, and general bibliophiles, so I'm making a beaded book.
I did want to do some sort of pretty, elaborate piece inspired by the jewelry worn by ladies in Renaissance portraits, but let's face it -- there's no aristocracy in my family tree. We're all a bunch of peasants, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Besides, a beaded book is something I've wanted to do for a while.
I came up with the idea last week, but I finally sat down to work on it today, I'm using square stitch, which is not my favorite technique. It's pretty time-consuming. But it will give my book nice straight edges, like a book should have. I'm using Delica beads, whose uniformity will help create the image of a smooth book cover. Hopefully it will turn out! Watch this blog for in-progress pictures!
Intriquing! Can't wait to see how this turns out.
ReplyDeleteSounds interesting. Can't wait to see it completed.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to put paper in?
ReplyDeleteMarilee, I haven't decided yet if I want to buy some pretty paper and cut it into tiny pages, or if I want to make beaded pages. I started out planning to do paper, but now I'm leaning towards beads. Decisions, decisions.
ReplyDeleteWell, I have a friend who does bookbinding and she can probably give you ideas on how to stitch the paper to look more real, if you go that way.
ReplyDeleteOh, I missed that comment before. Thank you, Marilee! I may end up picking your friend's brain :)
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