{"id":169,"date":"2008-01-04T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2008-01-04T02:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:51:00","slug":"slot-and-tab-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/slot-and-tab-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot and Tab Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over at the Book Arts list<\/a> on Yahoo, there’s currently a discussion about the slot-and-tab book structure. Carol blogged about the structure here<\/a> when people asked her about the book in her blog header, and Celia posted her sample with instructions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I followed the instructions in Alisa Golden’s book, Creating Handmade Books<\/span><\/a>. I’ve made many of the book structures in the book, but I had never tried this one before. I used scrapbook stock decorated with woodless colored pencils and water-soluble crayons — 8 sheets in 4 colors, with half decorated and half plain. Even with all these colors and patterns to help me keep it straight, I may not have attached the 2-sheet signatures to one another in a consistent manner. I’ll look at it again later when I have more time. I only had an hour for this today.<\/p>\n

Some of the heavier tab papers were harder to curl through the slot papers without damaging. I imagine a strong, long-fiber paper like kozu paper would work well with this structure. It’s a great non-adhesive binding structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at the Book Arts list on Yahoo, there’s currently a discussion about the slot-and-tab book structure. Carol blogged about the structure here when people asked her about the book in her blog header, and Celia posted her sample with instructions here. I followed the instructions in Alisa Golden’s book, Creating Handmade Books. I’ve made … <\/p>\n

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