Book 319 - "I'd Rather Be in San Miguel" - Accordion Fold Miniature Book with Talavera Tile Covers

Here's a miniature accordion fold book about my favorite place in the world - San Miguel de Allende, in the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico. I lived there for 10 years and it will always be home. I WILL go back.

For now, I use the hundreds of photos I've take of San Miguel to slake my thirst for it. So when I found these tiny 2" square talavera tiles made in a town very near San Miguel, of course they had to be a book, and of course it had to be about San Miguel.

I first covered the backs and the edges of the two tiles with dark blue mulberry paper and painted more PVA glue over the paper for durability. Then I chose 22 of my favorite photos I've taken in SMA and cropped and sized them down to under 2" then printed them out. I made the long accordion fold out of Arches Textwove paper and folded it into the accordion, then glued the photos to the pages. Finally, I glued the end pages onto the backs of the tile covers.

This is really a precious little book. I think I have more of these tiles, so perhaps I will make a small edition of this miniature book.