1 January 2007
Here I go
Posted by Lady Artisan under: KSProject .
So the first binding is the pamphlet stitch, which could potentially be the hardest cover to convert to polymer clay. The problem is that polymer clay, once cured, is breakable. It has a slight flex but certainly can’t withstand being bent in half, back and forth, over and over. Of course, I have done a pamphlet using polymer clay for the cover but I’m not fully satisfied with the result. This was a 4-hole pamphlet stitch. The cover is
solid polymer clay made to look like tooled leather and it’s flexible (I used part regular Premo! copper and part Bake and Bend [I mixed my own brown]). The reason I’m not fully satisfied is the limitations of the flex. It won’t lay flat unless you apply quite a bit of pressure so writing in it is not going to be easy (it’s a blank journal, of course). But I am going to cheat and count this as my 4-hole pamphlet since I still have to do a 3- and a 5-hole and whatever variations strike me as interesting (I like the look of those pamphlet-sewn concertinas).
I have two possible solutions. The sheet of clay I used for this book was pretty thick so my first solution is to make a much thinner cover which will hopefully make it a bit more flexible. My second idea is to use fabric coated or soaked with liquid clay, either for the full cover or for just the spine (and fuse it with regular clay side-covers).
