I made a wedding guest album with a silk cover for my brother and his wife. Doing Coptic binding simplifies everything. The cover in Coptic Binding is the same size as the pages and as it is an open-decorative spine, it is made of two separate sheets of card. (The cover is square - the photo isn't!) If you don't have a title you need to show which is the front and which is the back. I did a simple embroidered combination of their initials DC which fitted nicely on the corner. I explained … [Read more...]
Wedding guest album
When my brother Des asked me to make a wedding guest album, the first consideration was size and style. It was for guests to write in and we chatted about the possibility of Des doing a photo of each guest or couple / family to stick into the pages, to make it personal and memorable. Des is a photographer so this was possible but still a lot to achieve in two weeks, especially when he did my "bright idea" of doing the photos in sepia to give the book a harmonious all-over feel. On the whole, … [Read more...]