Japanese Style Books (3)

Now that I have fabric pasted to paper in a satisfactory manner, the Japanese style books can be made up. Various styles of binding are shown 3, 4 and 5-hole as well as a 4-hole Kangxi which is the brown one with gold silk binding thread standing up at the back. These are blank books made of handmade paper except for the red cloth one on the left. The next one is also covered in cloth while the other two have paper covers (Canson Ingres). I need to do some labels.

Another view of the bindings.

This is the one with the red cloth binding. The paper is Chinese water colour paper which is so lightweight, it has to be folded so that the fold is at the fore-edge of the book. The drawings are all stencils of caladium leaves done in oil pastels.

I have two more to do. The covers are made and one set of contents is ready. The last one needs some paper. I have prepared some paper for a Coptic binding too.