Weaving the Story.

A friend and I decided to continue our Art MOOC happiness and to set ourselves new projects every couple of months. The first project was to start with a found object, to use the concept of weaving, and to use more than two different techniques in making the object.

I decided to weave a story and make a book. I have been somewhat obsessed with making books recently. I started with an old cotton sheet that I found at the car boot sale. I ripped it into strips, and wrote a story onto the strips. I then wove the strips to form two double pages to construct a book. The rest of the book is made up of drawing, painting, collage, transfer on fabric (with packaging tape), hand and machine stitching.

It is not important to know the story, but it is a happy one, with a good ending. You can weave your own story by looking at the illustrations.
Front page:

First double page:

Second double page:

Third double page:

Fourth double page:

Fifth double page:

Sixth double page:

Seventh double page:

Eighth double page:

Ninth double page:

Back page:

Weaving the Story (A4-size book - paper, gauze, found objects, cotton, ink, paint, thread, transfer, glue; hand and machine stitched)