I've been thinking about this one for a while. It's really just a prototype. I want to make one that's bigger and more elaborate sometime after I get home to my own sudio.
This one is going to be extremely tricky to get home in a suitcase! On an airplane!
The book is basically a single strip of paper, folded into a spiral. For this one, I cut a base and top from mat board and covered them with red paper, inserted a stick made from three very thin bamboo sticks (from a placemat I cut apart) glued together. I inserted the ends of the stick into the two mat board pieces, glued one end of spiral to one of the boards, twined it around the stick and glued the other end to the other board.
I think it looks way cool!
This one is going to be extremely tricky to get home in a suitcase! On an airplane!
The book is basically a single strip of paper, folded into a spiral. For this one, I cut a base and top from mat board and covered them with red paper, inserted a stick made from three very thin bamboo sticks (from a placemat I cut apart) glued together. I inserted the ends of the stick into the two mat board pieces, glued one end of spiral to one of the boards, twined it around the stick and glued the other end to the other board.
I think it looks way cool!
Very Cool....love your books...Irene
ReplyDeleteThis one fascinates me! I don't know how to fold a strip of paper into a spiral, for one thing. But I'm also wondering if the spiral can't be "closed." I'm imagining you'd have shown that in a picture if it WERE possible; but if NOT possible, then why not (since there's glue only at either end of the spiral). So couldn't the two ends / "boards" be pushed together along the bamboo?
ReplyDeletePeg - This spiral could be closed if I had not glued the ends to the stick. If the mat board piece at the top, for instance, was free to slide down the stick, then yes, the spiral "book" could close. I hadn't thought of it, but it's a cool idea I'd like to explore!
ReplyDeleteThe fold is not too difficult, just a little picky. Cut a straight strip and make a series of vertical folds, all of them mountain folds, the whole length of the strip. You end up with a bunch of small rectangles. In each rectangle, make a valley fold that goes diagonally from one corner of the rectangle to the other. I think you can probably see the folds most clearly from the third photo.