Textile book

Found this unique illustrated fabric book in the archives of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York. The English translation of the title is “Ode to Forgetting”. The pages are composed of fa…

All pictures of inside pages are here : Ephemera, art textile book

The Take it Further fiber book is finally complete. My first fiber book, I'm over the moon. The cover is felt which I've embroidered and it opens to reveal the page above. Flipping through the pages. One for each month. That's the last page. The free form Cable chain stitch is an attempt to imitate the end papers in very old hard bound books which are marbled. The edges of the pages have sugar beads at intervals. You can see I got carried away. Click on the months to see each page of the…

Dianna Frid found inspiration in the tragic story of celebrated cave explorer Floyd Collins and in 1998 she constructed this memorializing embroidered cloth book. Using a heat transfer technique, D…

A hand-written letter is always a nice gesture, but this series of a hand-embroidered books by Candace Hicks are absolute works of art.

Book with ten pages with hand embroidery.

I have sent these little books out into the world and they appear to have reached their far-flung homes so it seems safe now to talk about ...

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Louise Bourgeois. Ode à l'Oubli. 2004. Fabric illustrated book with 35 compositions: 30 fabric collages and 5 lithographs (including cover). page (each): 10 5/8 x 13 3/8" (27 x 34 cm); overall: 10 5/8 x 13 3/8 x 3 3/16" (27 x 34 x 8.2 cm). Peter Blum Edition, New York. SOLO Impression, New York, Dyenamix, New York. "1/25" center colophon, red lithograph. Gift of the artist. 545.2005.1-35. © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY. Illustrated Book. Drawings and Prints