Flag book

These are the first 4 flag books that I made. This effort was prompted by the B.E.S.T Book Swap. Our last swap was all about flag books so I had to make one. But I had never made one before. The very first one: it uses found images for the flags and the accordion, and the cover has some of my paste paper on there. There is a quote about blue skies printed on the back of the flags. The second one: it also uses found images for the flags. There are a few lines from the Frost poem "Birches"…

My latest book, titled Tooth and Nail, is the second in a series of flag books that I began last year. The first in the series is The Take Care Blues, which I created and posted on this blog last …

It does not seem possible to post book structures based on accordions without mentioning the work of Hedi Kyle more than once. Today's post features instructions for making flag books. It is the first and only flag book I have made. This is the first ever flag book, April Diary, made by Hedi Kyle in…

I'm pretty sure you already knew it was National Accordion Awareness Month, but just in case, I thought I'd celebrate by making this Picnic accordion spine flag book! Some of you may remember when Club Scrap had flag book kits a few years ago. I still enjoy this project and thought it would be fun to design one around the size of the four 3.25x3.25" Picnic Lite Cutaparts as inside pages. Assembly Instructions: 1. Cut one 8x10.25" Dk Green paper to use for the binding. Score vertically every…

In the latest instalment of her monthly column on artists' books, Sarah Bodman looks at some beautiful publications inspired by the works of the Bard ahead of this year's Liverpool Artists' Book Fair.

Flag Book: A flag book is a type of sculptural artist book invented by Hedi Kyle. It is based on a simple accordion book, in which papers are glued to the sides of the accordion. These papers stick out like flags, hence the name. Examples of artists who have u…

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Implement, 5″x6.25″, 23″ extended, Flag book binding, Library cards, acrylic paint, ink, embossing, collage, 2016

compound flag book