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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding #33: hot air balloons
A fairly straightforward beginning bind and hole pattern.
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Continue reading →: UK letters #4
Not sure what this is, but it was outside the entrance to Pembroke College in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Continue reading →: A new font exercise
As part of my training at my new job with SIL International, I’ve been practicing drawing and digitizing Roman fonts. One day I will move on to non-Roman scripts, which I’m very excited about. But for now it’s been fun to mess about with this design. My parameters were to…
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding #31: woven
An easy hole pattern, and an advanced beginner sewing pattern.
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Continue reading →: UK letters #2
an inscription on the floor of a tomb in Saint Mary’s Church of Thame, Oxfordshire. Look at the long ‘s’ and ‘i’ ligature!
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding tutorial: butterfly
Dedicated to former adviser, Robert…I know you miss my ‘butterfly’ days… :) An intermediate bind with a difficult hole pattern. **click on an image to enlarge** hole pattern sewing pattern EXIT = needle pointed DOWN and ENTER = needle pointed UP ===== enter 1, (leave a tail but don’t knot…
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