I love fore-edge painted books and was happy to see the trend is coming back beyond the gold edged kind.
https://youtube.com/shorts/EffVWv3jmJU
When I was in Europe I discovered a store called flying tiger Copenhagen. I dismissed it when I walked past (there was a lot of pastel and pink), but then something caught my eye and I explored. It's a neat store, a lot of new design. It's somewhere between great dollar store and I've never seen this before. I thought it was geared toward children and teens but it had a few decent finds.
The store is marketed as a treasure hunting store, which is exactly what it is.
The paper is too thin for my liking, but for notes and ideas journaling, I liked this light weight flexible black vinyl Notesbog. Designed in Denmark, made in China.
Makes me smile.
It makes me Smile too and I can't say I've ever seen Books with that kind of Edging, it's Lovely. I've only ever seen Gilded Edging, and on very Old Books a kind of wavy less Colorful Edging sometimes.
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I'm into book art as well. The wavy is called decked. Gold is very common for those vintage inspired but they're starting to produce a lot of them. Today I saw a fiction book with night sky edging.
I've never seen it on a notebook and it's very easy to find, if I misplace it.
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ReplyDeleteI need more notebooks like I need a hole in the head.
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DeleteFore edge book art. I had seen some images of old books with scenes painted on but just now did n image search for such. some pretty amazing images and apparently it's an industry, a segment of the arts. You can get someone to paint a scene on your book, or order a book that's been painted.
ReplyDeleteCodex: I KNOW. I'm enamored. I came across that renewed industry recently. It's incredible. I am not into antique books (the smell) but love what's restarting. Except how would you display them other than flat as a coffee table book?
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