{"id":5379,"date":"2021-03-12T15:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:46:49","slug":"never-ending-story-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/never-ending-story-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Ending Story Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final book in the project (from the previous post) is a \u201cNever Ending Book\u201d in that it can double back on itself in a circular fashion, thus \u201cNever Ending\u201d. Constructed like the others, only with seven sections rather than eight, the paper pages are then covered with fabric in a crazy quilt fashion using bold stitches, resulting in a very textured piece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Stitching\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2021\/NE-stitchingBook.jpg\" alt=\"Image of handmade book\" width=\"\" height=\"250\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Folded book\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2021\/NE-foldedBook.jpg\" alt=\"Image of handmade book\" width=\"\" height=\"250\"\/><br \/>\nFabric  and spines in place<\/p>\n<p>Two sections have enlarged spines to accommodate extra pages (I may have enlarged mine a bit much) and the front and back covers are slightly padded. Once the stitching is finished the book is filled with the additional paper pages (not sewn in at this point) and is stuffed with leaves and\/or onion skins &#8211; I added rusty objects as well, and the whole bundle is compressed between two tiles, tied and placed in a dye pot with boiling water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ready for Dye pot\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2021\/NE-readyForPot.jpg\" alt=\"Image of handmade book\" width=\"\" height=\"250\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Out of Dye Pot Pot\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2021\/NE-outOfPot.jpg\" alt=\"Image of handmade book\" width=\"\" height=\"250\"\/><br \/>\nBefore and After<\/p>\n<p>I used an iron pot and added tea bags. The hardest part is leaving it alone for several days with out peeking. This morning I lifted the bundle out and removed the tiles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Soggy Bundle-Tiles removed\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2021\/NE-soggyBook.jpg\" alt=\"Image of handmade book\" width=\"\" height=\"250\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Removing Leaves\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2021\/NE-removingLeaves.jpg\" alt=\"Image of handmade book\" width=\"\" height=\"333\"\/><br \/>\nUnveiling<\/p>\n<p>Then the unwrapping begins carefully, opening each page to remove the dye materials and setting the book and loose pages aside to dry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Drying Book with separate Pages\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2021\/NE-dryingBook.jpg\" alt=\"Image of handmade book\" width=\"\" height=\"300\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More Drying Pages\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2021\/NE-dryingPages.jpg\" alt=\"Image of handmade book\" width=\"\" height=\"300\"\/><br \/>\nDrying (The dark bit in the first image is the main book structure. More pages in the second.)<\/p>\n<p>All is currently pretty soggy but I&#8217;m excited with the results. Some of these pages were tests and I will now dye some additional pages and then assemble the finish project! That will take awhile and will be in a future post! This has been a very fun project with lots of fodder for future projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final book in the project (from the previous post) is a \u201cNever Ending Book\u201d in that it can double back on itself in a circular fashion, thus \u201cNever Ending\u201d. Constructed like the others, only with seven sections rather than eight, the paper pages are then covered with fabric in a crazy quilt fashion using&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/never-ending-story-book\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,88,440,388,10,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stitching","category-design","category-inspiration","category-dyeing","category-fiber","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5402,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}