I think I might have finished printing my silences for the Book of Silences! This is an exciting moment as the many pages, printed back and front and on left and right sides, sit around the studio space drying and waiting.
If all goes as planned, I have printed title pages, 16 silences, an acknowledgements page and a colophon. I have a low level hum of minor anxiety/concern/worry that when I go to fold the pages and put the book together that I may have calculated incorrectly or planned wrongly and things don't matchup, line up or go in the right sequence.
I will however cross that bridge when I come to it. For now there is a real sense of satisfaction at having made it this far.
Here are some of the printings...
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A wee break for a bit, then I shall return to prepare the covers, and fold the pages and the end papers and the covers.
Then I will pierce the stitching holes for them all; then I will stitch them all; then I will trim them all.
All being well, and with no detours to printing again in the meantime!
They all look so good - what a big job this has been already with so much more still to come. The printed pages look wonderful, the snippets of silences tantalizing... it's wonderful to see the progression of them. You'll likely be in want of a good long break when the books are all done - a well-earned one!
ReplyDeleteIt will be grand for this one to be complete - and I will take some time to do something else for sure. The next things are lining up in my mind already!
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