Woo Hoo! Asahi Bookcloth and Chiyogami!

  As I continue to make Chinese Thread Books, I'm finding that I am beginning to develop preferences. Already, I find that I like Chiyogami paper for  the first layer box, a delicate, subtle paper for the second layer box, Stardream Metallic for the pamphlet and hidden sleeve. Now, after trying out the silky Japanese Asahi…

Terra Cotta and Green

My thought was that I would make a model based on the Chinese Thread Book, then make variations of said model using different papers. Turns out that using different papers resulted in creating many more questions than I anticipated. My next few posts will be showing how these questions got answered, one Zhen Xian Bao…

Indigo, Gold and Red

I've been cutting up my stashes of beautiful papers to design/make structures that borrow liberally from what I've learned about the Chinese Thread Book structure that I've been posting about over the last few months. Rather than strictly mimicking traditional Chinese structures, of which there are countless variations, I've been making variations of my own.…