So I thought I'd share a couple of the artist books that I've made with hemp yarn.
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This one is woven from natural and dyed hemp around dogwood stems.
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In this image you can see that the spine has been done in crochet and I've left three little windows through which the pages can be seen.
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The pages are made from wonderful green Khadi papers and waxed 'mineraux' paper from Shepherd Falkiners that I've hand-stitched with linen thread.
Bookbinding materials and papers are another of my obsessions...........but that's another story!
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And this little 'book' is in a less traditional format. I knitted a cover for a packet of cigarettes from hemp, then used pages from a book on Freud which I rolled into cylinders, and then printed a label for the front and voila - Art Fags!