{"id":663,"date":"2016-06-17T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/?p=663"},"modified":"2016-06-17T13:37:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T17:37:41","slug":"more-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"More Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been experimenting with paper marbling and have managed to get some results good enough to cover some small notebooks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/marbled3.jpg\" alt=\"marbled3\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/marbled3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/marbled3-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/marbled3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The paper is treated with a saturated solution of alum and left to dry overnight. The size is 4tbsp methylcellulose dissolved in 16c water. I used Golden brand liquid acrylics, which floated well, but the final results lack saturation. I will try using inks next time to get colours with more punch.<\/p>\n<p>I also bound a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/8183\">Time and the Gods<\/a> by Lord Dunsany.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tg_open.jpg\" alt=\"tg_open\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tg_open.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tg_open-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tg_open-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tg_open-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I used printer paper on three tapes and sewed headbands. The text is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\">Gutenburg Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I formatted the plain ASCII text in Word, converted it to PDF, and ran the result through a utility to arrange the pages into signatures. The utility, aptly named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantumelephant.co.uk\/bookbinder\/bookbinder.html\">Bookbinder<\/a>, does what it says on the tin. It took some trial and error to get everything just so, but the result turned out well.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been experimenting with paper marbling and have managed to get some results good enough to cover some small notebooks. The paper is treated with a saturated solution of alum and left to dry overnight. The size is 4tbsp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}