Double Yew Cube paper sampler - 40+ years of handmade paper

Jim’s Description

Overview

Number of pages: 358

Year complete: 2025

Dimensions: H: 7 cm, W: 7.5 cm, T: 4.75cm*

*H= Height, W = how wide the cover is, T = Thickness of book

Materials

Paper - Mostly mine, but wide array of other people's paper. Frog stamper - natural bleach hemp hurds and fine fiber, ream wrapper, 95’ Frog Mill season, several watermark sheets, U of Iowa Belgium flax, natural bleach firehose, flax, Twin Rocker pulp, Sea Pen pulp, Moulin de Verger sheets. Paper documented, but not inscribed in book yet.

Sewing - Pack sewn using Korean War era staple cotton suture thread on raised double cord - lye cooked and washed a bunch to remove most of of the abundant Non-cellulose (See Clarkson cord).

Boards - Air dried Idaho Yew, (very fine grain) laid on the ground many years before I got it. Wood in purple near the cracks. Quarter split, worked totally by hand.

Endband -  Homegrown here by Melody (flax), processed and spun by the binder, thread plied by Jim (and especially by Melody), lye cooked thread on a wood cookstove, washed many times, sewn by binder using liberal amounts of beeswax.

Covering - Historic brain tanned, but grain on. Traditionally no grain is the norm, giving it a suede look on the hair side is classic. I’m intrigued, and I’d like to try some more.

Price: $1,255