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November 25, 2007

The Body Is—Titles

MaelstromhousemoiGot the slide mailers covered, slides inserted and taped down and ready to be mounted to the covers. First I have to cover the boards with a layer of the Nepalese paper on one side, then mount the slide mailers with archival linen mounting tape, then glue the paper on the other side, then glue on the loose layer of the Thai fabric-backed paper, sew on the bone clasps, figure out where to put the hands, and they're ready to bind.

Here are the mailers, covered and filled with slides, which are held in with strips of metallic copper tape (who knew there was such a thing?) which should patina nicely as the book gets older. It's hard to see right now against the Nepalese paper. And I'm going to have to buy more of that on Monday to finish that part up. (Click for larger images.)

Labels

A million labels stamped by hand for the titles (above)

 Cover_boards

cover board and slide mailer (above)

Englishtitle_2

English title slides (above)

  Spanishtitle

Spanish title slides

I know I've forgotten an accent on the Spanish title, but I need to buy a sharpie to put it in by hand, since the stamp set didn't have any. I decided to leave the gray board behind the slides as is to make it easier to see that they're real microscope slides.

I also ran a test print on the 11x17 linen paper I bought yesterday. Dummy me, I'm thinking 20 pages, each signature is going to be ten pages. Well, no, not on 11x17 paper. They're five pages each, which is good news and bad news. The good news is it's half the cost in paper that I thought; the bad news is that the book's even thinner than I thought. Of course, the overlays will flesh it out some and so will the cover stock, but there's no way a three-board structure is going to work. So Coptic stitch it is.

The good news is that the prints look great, even on the linen paper. When I get the layout just right, I'll do a proof run on the cover stock. The new printer is just lovely, I have to say. Quick and quiet and great color. Of course, there are eight ink cartridges and they're $15 ea. so it ain't cheap. But it's worth every penny.

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