Journey of a journal 一本小小記事部

A little journal made of wool felt cover and eco print papers. 

 That will be a journal for the little lovers.  

This wool felt pair (my old posts of making here) tells you the story..... 

Papers are of eco prints, i.e. leaves printed on papers by steaming. After "sun dried", I binded it with cover made of nuno felt (wool + chiffon scraps).
 

Enclosed with a sea shell on the cover

A tie knot of another shell 

Some of the papers printed with wild plants 

A journal of 7 signatures of total 84 pages 

"Come on, let's go to the brush to pick some windfalls..... to the beach for seashells ......."

Walked up the trail.....  Name of the trail reminds the Colonial era. 

Down to the Aberdeen Reservior 

Aberdeen water 

Arrived Stanley beach and the market

Not many tourists on Monday today.  Quite a leisure walk. 

Tired? Rest on the rock and listen to the wave. 

Theme of the journal cover - "sea & wave" 

                    

A journal to jot my day of walk and inspiration.......  that's the sample of the my upcoming book making workshop.

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My nice day today !  Wish you too !

Eco print ref book 植物印染參考

Recent experiments of different leaves on different papers......

Mogi, "mum has made a eco print book for her ref."

A little journal with nuno felt cover,  with a paper of eco printed leaf sewed on it.

Inside cover of nuno felt texture.

 Pages are marked with leaves and sorts of papers used for the experiment.

 Intended to put some rose petals over the leaves to make some pink marks.  Different sorts of leaves picked from the mountain behind my apartment were tried.

But not all got nice prints.  Ferms have no clear color or outlines. 

 Among all, the paper bark tree, eucalyptus cinerea and maple are quite good on some sorts of papers.

 With iron mordanted lines, they look pretty.

 Windfalls of this sort of euc leaf is very nice.

 Outlines of paper-bark tree are sharp.

Maple is good. 

 Here are the steps of making. 

 After placing the leaves on papers, steamed and binded the signatures.  Made the nuno felt cover. sewed the paper cover of leaf print.  A little journal is made. 

  Not all the pages are nice. I marked the species and paper used.  That's a good ref. for my sourcing local leaves to make paper prints.

 Over the weekend with hubby we walked up and down the mountain, to the sea shore, picked some local leaves to do another experiments for my upcoming eco print journal. 

 This is my ref. book of eco print.....

 a journal for my path of eco print..........

Mogi, "mum, that's enough I'm tired......."

- Well, until next time.....  THANK YOU all !
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