Gift Book for Michelle – Memories of Ecuador
Last week I started sharing my vision of a book for my friend, Michelle, who helped me press and collect the flowers from our 2008 trip to Ecuador. My next step was to visit my neighbor who is a talented bookbinder. I took my finished pages (at least I thought so at the time) and hoped he would have some suggestions for putting the book together. We discussed making an accordion of folded paper to hold each page or making a box to hold the loose pages. I took home two books on bookmaking to read and experiment. One of the requirements I had was to make sure I could open the pages fully without damaging the dried flora. That presented challenges of protecting the flowers and I used a translucent paper to cover the dried flower cut smaller that the floral page. It would be easy to lift the translucent cover to see the actual flower. Somewhere about this time I realized that I had 2 different widths of pages. That would n...