Sunday 12 September 2010

enfoldments, the travellers' notebooks







































































at Glenbarr, just north of Strathalbyn, South Australia
we spent a week dyeing paper, writing, stitching,
wandering and windfall gathering
we read our words aloud [this required courage]
we made folded books
boiled bark into ink
and sewed our interpretations of furoshiki [wrapping cloths]
to keep our precious treasures safe

ps i'm enjoying reading your contributions to the post below
entries close at midnight [South Australian time] on September 13
when i stop chuckling
i'll try and select a few recipients for parcels...

18 comments:

  1. The colors and markings on the papers splayed out in the first photo are fascinating. I am always curious about windfall materials gathered from all parts of the planet. What windfall materials created these deep colors?

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  2. Just look at those bundles...I just love them...visual delights to drool over (not literary of course ha ah)
    Lynn xx

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  3. phworrrr! booooooks! love it! (and what's this about boiled bark ink?)

    del-ish-ous

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  4. wonderful, what a week you must have had. bark ink? is it just concentrated boiled bark juice or did you add some hairofthedog?

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  5. no dog hairs in sight
    bark ink made from Eucalyptus sideroxylon
    other colours from E. leucoxylon, E. cinerea and
    Pisolithus tinctorius

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  6. Thanks India: I looked up the various eucalyptus and had a good laugh at the other names for the fungus, aka horse dung fungus and in Europe, Bohemian truffle.

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  7. I wondered about using the natural dyes for paper. Are you kozo, or watercolour?

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  8. Sorry! Forgot to say that the notebooks look amazing!!

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  9. we used a range of papers from architectural detail paper to watercolour

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  10. oh my god these are so incredibly beautiful! I absolutely LOVE bookmaking and these are delicious!!! Happy sigh....

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  11. Lustworthy. I want to dye paper.

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  12. well I wanted to leave my writing piece but it is a bit long, could you pop by my site to read it and see it? http://caterinagiglio.blogspot.com ?

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  13. traveling companions, notebooks are.

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  14. You know, India, sometimes when I view all the amazing creative work going on out there, and the use of materials in ways I have never fathomed before, I find myself wishing for a few consecutive lifetimes so that I can immerse myself in all of them...

    GORGEOUS notebooks!

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  15. this is beyond inspirational. It's liberating. I'm sure it has been exhilarating to create them.
    thank you very much for sharing this experience.

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  16. Lovely to see these parcels of gorgeousness.

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