Postage project

When we were on holiday in France last year we went to the flea market in Nice.  There was plenty of stuff, although it was extremely hot so we got quite burnt and didn't stay for too long.  Anyway, over the last couple of months I have been working on something new, based on some old letters and post cards I found there - all in French.  Started to create something using fragments of what people had written, reflecting their lives.  A postal/postage project.....

Anyway, the Sheffield Book Art Show came up, so I speeded up to finish the piece of work so that I could send it in for the Show.  Just about made the deadline!

It was fun to make, and I tried out some new ideas, and used some of my marbled paper for parts of it.  I entitled it "La Plume de ma Tante" - remember that phrase?  It's in all the best early French/English translation help.

Here's a few peeks -  it took AGES to make the whole thing look old and worn, stained and well-used.  I wanted to age it because the source materials were all dated 1920s and some 1950s, so it seemed like the folder/container needed to look as if it had a bit of a life ....

 

 

 

 

This one above was using some of the marbled paper I made some time back.  It closes up to form a wallet, and then I tied it in some thin red suede.

 

 

Tried to use old string where possible too, all in keeping with the theme of postal this and thats.   I hope people take out all the bits and pieces and look at them - there are a lot to see and they are fascinating fragments of times past.

 

 

 

 

 

This pic shows a concertina booklet filled with parts of letters, and each little envelope at foot of each page contains more writing to look at inside.