The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet. Color Scheme Designer 3. Rentrée littéraire 2012. A Yen For Paper. As you can see, I have been doing quite a lot of binding this past week. Quite a pile of it, in fact. I had been loathe to cut into my treasured sheets of handmade Washi, (some of which I showed in my previous post), they were so beautiful - several of them even looked like they were lit from within and the closer I looked at them, the more special they became. However, at the beginning of the week, I decided to make a start, and having begun, I just couldn't stop. Each time I completed one, I thought "Oh, I wonder what this paper would look like once it was bound - they were so pleasing to look at, to hold and to use.
The notebook above shows the Kangxi variation on the Four-Hole Binding. This green and pink one with the lovely gold splashes is the Hemp-Leaf binding, or asa-no-ha toji, to give it its correct Japanese name. These binding look deceptively simple, but require a lot of accurate work, in order to achieve a good standard of finish. Ah well, I can always dream. Editeurs HTML. The Gimp. Accueil.