Vintage Materials – Barbara Mauriello

Amen the Thirteenth Day (2002)

I have always loved using vintage materials. Hand-written documents, photos, buttons, postcards: all have found a place in my books.

Folding box, with daguerreotype framed by parchment on the lid; embroidery; buttons.

Rounded case bindings with parchment-covered boards; buttons and embroidery.

Set of 6

Tacket binding on dyed vellum; 207+ plastic buttons sewn onto covers with cotton thread; in a folding box. Unique binding

Longstitch bindings with parchment covers and fore-edge flaps.

This box, constructed of vintage postcards, is one of the projects included in my book Making Memory Boxes.

Text blocks laced into boxes-as-covers; decorative parchment spine patches; embroidery; button closures.

Set of 5