{"id":10355,"date":"2021-03-25T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=10355"},"modified":"2021-04-02T14:29:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T21:29:45","slug":"wee-teabag-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/wee-teabag-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Wee teabag book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This little book came to me upon waking one day. And I had to give it a try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been saving these silky tea bags from a tin of tea, and with another pot or two made, I was done with the tea. I had enough empty bags to make a decently chunky book. I needed to carefully open the bags along three edges, and clean any stray tea leaves out of them. Then I wrapped the closed edges with little strips of paper to stabilize them. The paper was from a scrap of BFK Rives. I dyed the wrappers with tea so they would blend nicely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tea bags with wrappers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The pile is quite springy. Also slippery. I’m holding it in place to try to judge how the spine will look. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make the covers, I cut four little rectangles of the Rives paper and stained them with a little leftover walnut dye. I got some nice patterns by not being too careful with it, so it pooled up. Then I glued two rectangles together and folded them in half, giving me a front and a back cover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next step, I used the Coptic stitch to bind the book. It was tricky because the papers were pretty soft and smushy. If I ever do this again, I will use firmer paper to wrap the edges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View from the front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from the top, showing the wrappers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The tea bags are nice and fluffy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On the windowsill, on a foggy day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This little book came to me upon waking one day. And I had to give it a try. I’ve been saving these silky tea bags from a tin of tea, and with another pot...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[425],"class_list":["post-10355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-coptic-stitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10409,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions\/10409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}