{"id":9030,"date":"2019-12-18T11:38:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T18:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2025-02-15T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:17:14","slug":"fourth-sewn-on-spine-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/fourth-sewn-on-spine-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewn on Spine Book 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New skills! And using materials from my shelves! I&#8217;m very enthusiastic about this book.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_8799.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9029\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_8799.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_8799-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The decorative cloth is Three Cats Shweshwe purchased from Mnandi in Cape Town, South Africa. I added lightweight paper as a backing to make it suitable for bookcloth. I have two more to use as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_8430.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9028\" width=\"500\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_8430.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_8430-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bought the black bookcloth at a spring book arts fair in Portland. It has a very subtle inclusion of a brassy colored thread, only fuzz really.<\/p>\n<p>I chose the cross stitch sewing pattern for the spine. The best technique I found on YouTube linked here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fVPW9_gs6uQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sewing in a signature with a cross stitch tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The text pages are Fabriano Artistico hot press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New skills! And using materials from my shelves! I&#8217;m very enthusiastic about this book. The decorative cloth is Three Cats Shweshwe purchased from Mnandi in Cape Town, South Africa. I added lightweight paper as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[149,361],"tags":[379,530],"class_list":["post-9030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-fabric","tag-sewnonspine","tag-shweshwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_8799.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030","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=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9033,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions\/9033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}