2004: june 27
The France Travel Sig
July 1st - July 14th I will be in Bordeaux, France at the Libre Software Meeting. I was running out of room in my bookbinding notebook but wanted to take something I'd made instead of my cruddy store-bought notebooks (I bought a pile of them back in the pre-bookbinding days and I'm trying to use them up). I wanted to have a book that would be specifically for this trip. But I have no idea how many pages I'll need. Instead of making a complete book that gets only half filled, I decided to work by signature. (The idea is definitely not my own, but I'm not entirely sure who gets the full credit for the idea as I've seen it in so many different places).
The Case
The case can hold up to six sigs, or five sigs and a full wrapper. It is covered in a black linen bookcloth and Japanese chiyogami (printed paper). The colour scheme was inspired by the chiyogami.
The inside of the case is also lined with the patterned paper.
The Parts
Each Sig is 32 (4x6inches) pages of scribbling goodness. The signatures are wrapped in a vibrant Fabriano paper which is light enough to hold a summary of contents on the outside page. They are bound with a thick linen thread (18/3) which gives enough bulk to the spine that I can add a photo or two on the inside without the booklet splaying open. The signatures are bound using "parallel bars" although the effect turns into dots under this method of binding. The space between the dots is approximately two (paper) bars high.
The wrapper is a gorgeous lime green water colour paper from La Papetrie St-Armand in Montreal. The same paper is used on my first wrapper prototype.
