Weekend Update

You guys, Forwarding and Covering is OVER.  Also, I got a score of 4.5 out of 5.  Pop pop!  Also in our evaluation time I asked Don if I could put him down as a reference when I apply for internships, and he said yes and also I could maybe apply for an internship at his company.  MAYBE I WILL. 
Here are pictures from yesterday and today:

This book is covered in vellum.  ...I don't know what else to say.  It's a book I found at the cool bookstore in SLC--turns out the best place to look for cheapish old falling apart books is in the poetry section!  I think because they are slimmer than novels, is why they are cheaper.  Anyway, this is a sweet little book--it is the poem Snowbound, but John Greenleaf Whittier. I like the way it turned out because the splotching on the vellum sort of goes with the snow-type theme.  Vellum is really weird to work with--it is incredibly stiff and not happy to be bent and creased the way you want it to, and even when it does go to the shape you want (like mine has here) it is still really...I dunno, puffy?  It does not want to lay flat.  Don says I should leave it under weights for the next MONTH OR TWO.  Crazy town, right?  Apparently a more humid climate will also help, which is good because basically anywhere in the world is more humid than Telluride so it should start behaving itself quickly.

This is the inside of the calf skin book.  I chose a pretty conventional marbled paper for this one!

Here's the inside of Pelham, which I showed you before but it wasn't actually all the way done then.  This is after set the hinge and glued down the end paper, whereas before I was sort of cheating just to take the picture.  Don says (and I agree) that one of the main things I need to work on is all this stuff--the inside hinge and end paper.  You can't really tell, but I cut it a bit funny so the leather margin is fractionally uneven.  Also I glued some stuff down not-perfectly (I know, a shock) so there's some tension in the joint instead of happy-to-be-opened-ness being in the joint.

Here's Mr. Alum Tawed Pig Skin!  It's hard to see detail in all the white but you can maybe see at the top how those indents on the spine are really thick and textured-y?  I really like how that looks.  What I don't like so much is how alum-tawed feels, which is kind of knobby and dry and weird, and also I'm not super in to the whole dirty-white thing.  I guess if I go into my medieval monk persona I don't mind it so much though.

Here is the inside of Mr. Alum Tawed, and let me stop you right there and say OH MY GOSH I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS PAPER.  I...I don't know how to explain it.  It is weird.  It is not classically handsome.  It is not movie-star attractive.  But we're in love and there's nothing you can do to stop us.

And here is a picture of everyone's books all together! Except that that's not even all of them--2 of mine (vellum and cloth case, which I haven't mentioned here ever I don't think because it's boring and simple) were in the press, and I think other people had some they were still working on too. Anyway, pretty cool though right?  What is also fun is that everyone used basically the same leathers and everything but I can still pick mine out of the crowd.  That's nice.