{"id":398,"date":"2010-11-21T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2010-12-27T01:43:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T01:43:55","slug":"a-tale-of-two-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/a-tale-of-two-books\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished a commission for an accordion book. I thought I understood what the client wanted, but you know, every once in a while I just get it wrong.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542067174633880274\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 311px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/TOlgu3FnutI\/AAAAAAAAA-8\/ZDmx8R2HSNg\/s320\/2010-11-21-book1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>I heard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stained glass but not religious (which I suggested would be difficult).<\/li>\n<li>Masculine.<\/li>\n<li>Traditional.<\/li>\n<li>Muted colors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m not good with muted colors; this first attempt <em>is<\/em> muted colors &#8230; for me.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t understand was the particular meaning of traditional. Looking at this first attempt I now realize that this looks like a particular style of my Presbyterian youth. My mother had jewelry that looks like this, and I was clueless about that connection while designing the book.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542069006160460322\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; cursor: hand; width: 291px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/TOliZeDleiI\/AAAAAAAAA_E\/Y9brd6bK2O0\/s320\/2010-11-21-book2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>So I started over again with a style that the client\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\">had liked in the past. And I realize that even though it doesn&#8217;t have muted colors and it doesn&#8217;t seem very masculine to me, it <em>is<\/em> more traditional \u2014 in both a catholic and Catholic sense.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The cover is a green silk bookcloth shot through with gold. I think it works. I made a wrapper from handmade paper with leaf inclusions, using a strip of book cloth as the ribbon holding the bone clasp.<\/div>\n<div>Commissions are always a learning experience.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542071703701595010\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 270px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/TOlk2fLgo4I\/AAAAAAAAA_M\/SvZ6uvfDDmU\/s320\/2010-11-21-book2wrapper.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished a commission for an accordion book. I thought I understood what the client wanted, but you know, every once in a while I just get it wrong. I heard: Stained glass but not religious (which I suggested would be difficult). Masculine. Traditional. Muted colors. Well, I&#8217;m not good with muted colors; this first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/a-tale-of-two-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Tale of Two Books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-6q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}