{"id":1056,"date":"2015-03-03T18:20:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T01:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2015-03-03T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T03:47:08","slug":"fishbone-fold-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/03\/fishbone-fold-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishbone Fold Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At yesterday’s meeting of our\u00a0local calligraphy guild, Bridger Mountain Scribes<\/a>, I led a tutorial on the fishbone fold, invented by Hedi Kyle. Despite having finally figured it out earlier that morning (!)<\/em>, it went smoothly. I followed the fishbone variation tutorial<\/a>\u00a0that Alisa Golden published on her blog, Making Handmade Books.<\/p>\n

As I understand it, the standard fishbone has a stepped-out fore-edge; in this variation, the fore-edges are all the same width from the spine … ideally.<\/p>\n

At the close of the tutorial, we each had a 3″ x 3-1\/2″ text block of Arches Text Wove and a black pastel paper cover; end papers could be added at home. Even though we had measured a spine based on the width of the text block, the book did not close nicely\u00a0and the glue stick (this was tutorial, remember) did not adhere the pastel paper cover well.<\/p>\n

I returned to the studio and kept looking at the model I had made during the tutorial. I love Arches Text Wove, and this book block called out for some yummy black lettering. I did that. I decided to replace the paper cover with a cloth-covered board cover. This helped the book to close, but didn’t altogether solve the problem. So I added a bone closure.<\/p>\n

\"2015-03-03<\/a>Now it had a book shape. I lettered in black sumi and watered-down white gouache on black paper and trimmed those down for end papers.<\/p>\n

I like it.<\/p>\n

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  At yesterday’s meeting of our\u00a0local calligraphy guild, Bridger Mountain Scribes, I led a tutorial on the fishbone fold, invented by Hedi Kyle. Despite having finally figured it out earlier that morning (!), it went smoothly. I followed the fishbone variation tutorial\u00a0that Alisa Golden published on her blog, Making Handmade Books. As I understand it, … <\/p>\n

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