"Open Spine" Bookbinding Workshop ....

A few pictures of the books created at my last workshop. Beautiful books made by very talented people ...

Adventures with Allium Cepa cont. ......

Oddments of recycled cotton and linen scoured then left to soak in mordant overnight .... a few days out in the sunshine to get rid of the vinegary smell ........

... dyed in various batches of onion dyes ......

... I really should have tested a few scraps to see how light fast the dyed fabric was ... but I'm far too impatient and made a few sample books instead ....

... painted the fore-edges with really concentrated dyes ... 

I'm interested to see how fast the colours fade ... if at all ... fingers crossed!