My next step was to
make the book into a locked book and again using one of the Andruzi
principals, I cut two pieces of wire the length of the covers of the
book, bent the wires around a piece of metal to form an eyelet, through
which the bale of a small padlock could be passed, and these were placed
along the edge of the covers and held in place with transparent tape.
To finish the book, I used the suede cloth to cover the existing hard covers of the book. With the suede cloth surface down on a flat area, the backing allowed me to trace and cut the corners and the open spine ends. Two small holes were cut in the suede material to allow the locking rings to be pushed through. I secured the rings to the covers using small strips of the suede material from corner scraps. The final product is a most unusual locked book. The Suede surface is porous enough to use a pen with gold ink to add decoration. The final picture in the series shows the book with the little padlock.
The completed locked book with decorative dragon on front cover.
From start to finish, seeing as how I now had an old book on the supernatural in my library, took but a few hours of actual time. The thinking and gathering of the materials were not taken into consideration in the construction time. In Part 3 you can view
other items which I have covered using this Suede material, hopefully
these will provide you with many ideas. |
