{"id":8759,"date":"2019-06-25T15:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=8759"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:10:30","slug":"blue-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/blue-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue books &#8211; finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished these little woven spine books which have been languishing in a bag in my studio since the middle of May.<\/p>\n<p>Why now? Immobilized with back pain. Today was much better than yesterday. So I could gingerly move around and gather what I needed. Then stayed in one place long enough to finish 3 patches of weaving and tie on 52 beads.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_7210.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8757\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_7210.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_7210-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_7211.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8758\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_7211.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_7211-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Materials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paste paper covers from a workshop with Abbie Read<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=8698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Text paper<\/a> dyed with blue butterfly pea dye<\/li>\n<li>Guard sheets of various scraps from my stash, cut to size long ago<\/li>\n<li>Scraps of waxed linen thread used for sewing sections in a 5-hole pamphlet<\/li>\n<li>Embroidery floss from Deb Lacativa used for weaving<\/li>\n<li>Beads from Vintage Spinster, purchased in Muizenberg, South Africa, at Gina&#8217;s store<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These books seem like a hodgepodge of materials pulled together. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll add any content to them. This project was inspired by Rosemary Levin&#8217;s book at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaptertwocorea.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chapter Two<\/a> in Corea, Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished these little woven spine books which have been languishing in a bag in my studio since the middle of May. Why now? Immobilized with back pain. Today was much better than yesterday.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,355],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-8759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-weaving","tag-blue_books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_7210.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759","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=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8878,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions\/8878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}