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Photo Book with Slipcover
Photo Book with Slipcover
Created for 2022 Nova Award, in appreciation of Philadelphia Jazz Guitarist Monnette Sudler
Dimensions: 9.25” x 11.25” x 0.75”
Spine title stamped with gold foil
Book Cloth: Cialux Teal Green
Sewn Spine; Accordion Tabs
Let's Eat Cake Recipe Book
Teapot needlepont designed and stitched by Lisa Scarpello. 2020 Let’s Eat Cake Project and Collaboration with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers
Recipe Book, Covid Cake Recipe and Title/Artist List
2020 Let’s Eat Cake Project and Collaboration with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers
Covid Cake Description
2020 Let’s Eat Cake Project and Collaboration with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers
Coronavirus Linocut for Covid Cake Recipe
2020 Let’s Eat Cake Project and Collaboration with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers
Covid Cake
2020 Let’s Eat Cake Project and Collaboration with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers
Book of Game Design
Blank Book 8” x 5”
Leone di San Marco, 2019
Linocut
Moka, 2019
Linocut
Gelsomino, 2019
Linocut
Pozzo, 2019
Linocut
Ponte, 2019
Linocut
Campane, 2019
Linocut
Bird in Hands: Words for Birds
Bird in Hands: Words for Birds
8" x 8"
Collaborative Print Exchange Project with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers
Cover: Handsewn Bird on bookcloth
Text: Handpainted capital letters and letterpress bird, handsewn endbands
2017
Detail: Bird in Hands: Words for Birds
Detail: Bird in Hands: Words for Birds
8" x 8"
Collaborative Print Exchange Project with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers
Cover: Handsewn Bird on bookcloth.
Text: Handpainted capital letters and letterpress bird, handsewn endbands
2017
Blank Book
Blank Book
Spine title: Modified Longstitch binding,
Cover: Chain stitch
2017
Autumn Leaves 2018
Autumn Leaves
Multilayered Accordion/Carousel Book with hand cut tree silhouettes, hanging leaves on gold thread, rice paper with embedded leaves and embossed copper paper.
Size Closed: 5.5” x 4” x 2”, Open: 5.5” x 4” x 15”
2018
Autumn Leaves - Detail
Autumn Leaves
Multilayered Accordion/Carousel Book with hand cut tree silhouettes, hanging leaves on gold thread, rice paper with embedded leaves and embossed copper paper.
Size Closed: 5.5” x 4” x 2”, Open: 5.5” x 4” x 15”
2018
Autum Leaves - Detail
Autumn Leaves
Multilayered Accordion/Carousel Book with hand cut tree silhouettes, hanging leaves on gold thread, rice paper with embedded leaves and embossed copper paper.
Size Closed: 5.5” x 4” x 2”, Open: 5.5” x 4” x 15”
2018
How To Make A Kitchen Placemat
How To Make A Kitchen Placemat
4.5" x 6.5"
Text: digitally printed on Japanese Rice Paper, Ela Egon Lauridsen sterling silver spoons, four mini handsewn placemats with gold thread
2015
Book Detail
Book Detail: How To Make A Kitchen Placemat
4.5" x 6.5"
Text: digitally printed on Japanese Rice Paper
Binding: Gold thread sewn in the shape of the Japanese word for fabric
2015
HCG, An Encyclopaedia (front)
HCG, An Encyclopaedia (front)
5" x 5"
Concertina Fold with handsewn red silk thread in EKG patterns. Text in encyclopaedic format.
2016
HCG, An Encyclopaedia (back)
HCG, An Encyclopaedia (back)
5" x 5"
Concertina Fold with handsewn red silk thread in EKG patterns. Text in encyclopaedic format.
2016
Florence - A Travel Journal
Florence - A Travel Journal
11" x 4.5"
Book case constructed to mimic Florentine window shutters, Binding: French Linkstitch, French Paper
2017
How To Make A Cocktail Napkin
Florence - A Travel Journal
5.75" x 4.75"
Clam Shell Box, Silk Napkins, Case Bound book with Mohawk Superfine
2015
Thank You
Thank You
3.5" x 5"
Letterpress cards with hand drawn ink illustration. Box: Japanese rice paper inlayed with dried flowers
2016
Wishing you the gentle joys of this wonderful season
Wishing you the gentle joys of this wonderful season
6" x 4"
Carousel Book, Recycled Christmas Cards
2015
Detail: Wishing you the gentle joys of this wonderful season
Detail: Wishing you the gentle joys of this wonderful season
6" x 4"
Carousel Book, Recycled Christmas Cards
2015
Christmas Card 2016
Christmas Card 2016
3" x 4"
Letterpress and hand inked musical notes, edition of 40
2016
Merry Christmas, 2015
Merry Christmas, 2015
4" x 3"
Christmas Cards, edition of 32
Letterpress and woodcut, handmade envelopes
2015
Blank Book
5" x 5"
Ethiopian Binding, Cover: Blind debossed red leather
2014
Blank Book
Blank Book
5" x 3.5"
Binding: Caterpillar Stitch over leather, Cover: Cave Paper, Somerset paper
2016
Case for St Francis Book of Prayers in Polish
Case for St Francis Book of Prayers in Polish
4" x 6" - closed
Wrap Around Case for Bóg Mój I Wszystko, with hand lettered endpaper in silver ink
2015
Detail: Case for St Francis Book of Prayers in Polish
Detail: Case for St Francis Book of Prayers in Polish
4" x 6"
Wrap Around Case for Bóg Mój I Wszystko, with hand lettered endpaper in silver ink
2015
Blank Book
Detail: Case for St Francis Book of Prayers in Polish
6.5" x 5"
Exposed Longstitch binding, multicolored French Paper
2013
Passage of Time
Passage of Time
7" x 9"
Tunnel Book, Gold Thread Stitched on Acetate, Handmade paper
2015
Detail: Passage of Time
Detail: Passage of Time
Tunnel Book, Gold Thread Stitched on Acetate, Handmade paper
2015
Detail: Passage of Time
Detail: Passage of Time
7" x 9"
Tunnel Book, Gold Thread Stitched on Acetate, Handmade paper
2015
To California 2013
To California 2013
8.75" x 11"
Japanese Stab Binding with Canson 24lb Parchment paper, Color photographs and hand drawn illustrations with colored pencil.
Book and Box: Linen Book Cloth and decorative paper, game cards included, 2014
Detail: To California 2013
Page Detail: To California 2013
8.75" x 11"
Japanese Stab Binding with Canson 24lb Parchment paper, Color photographs and hand drawn illustrations with colored pencil.
Book and Box: Linen Book Cloth and decorative paper, game cards included, 2014
Puerto Rico, 2015
Puerto Rico, 2015
5" x 4"
Inspired by Keith Smith’s non-adhesive book structures.
Exposed Binding, Cover: digital image printed on Habotai silk book cloth, French Paper
2018
Flower of Life: An Alphabetical Meditation
Book: Accordion Binding handsewn with silk thread, text digitally printed on Habotai silk.
Knitted mohair book cover and blanket, laser printed wood, clam shell box
2017
Flower of Life: An Alphabetical Meditation
2.5" x 2.5"
Book: Accordion Binding handsewn with silk thread, text digitally printed on Habotai silk.
2017
Ex Libris
Ex Libris
4" x 3"
Letterpress Bookplate
2016
Blank Book
Blank Book
5" x 4"
Medieval Longstich and Chain Stitch combination, 19th Century Parchment Manuscript, Spine: Tanned Cowhide, Paper: Fabriano CMF Ingres
2017
Blank Book
Blank Book
3.5" x 3.5"
Ethiopian Binding with catgut, Cover: cedar wood
2014
Blank Book
Blank Book
5" x 3"
Cover Image: Michelangelo’s The Erythraean Sibyl, Secret Belgian Binding, Cave Paper
2016
Blank Book-Sauces
Blank Book-Sauces
3" x 5"
Cover Image: Digital print of Sauces, Oil on board, Lisa Scarpello
2013
Sketch Journal
Sketch Journal
4" x 6"
Cover Image: Digital photo of the Walnut Street Bridge, Lisa Scarpello
2016
Blank Book
Blank Book
4" x 6"
Cover Image: Digital Photo of a Praying Mantis, Lisa Scarpello
2016
In-Between
In-Between
4.5" x 11"
Drumleaf Binding, Collaborative Project of Positive & Negative Images,
Cover: digital image printed on Habotai silk book cloth
2016
So Much More Room
6" x 6"
So Much More Room: An Exquisite Corpse in 4 Movements with Huda Jabalawi, Lisa Scarpello, Mathew Sutter, Susan Viguers, Paper: Mohawk Satin
2014
Detail Page: So Much More Room
6" x 6"
So Much More Room: An Exquisite Corpse in 4 Movements with Huda Jabalawi, Lisa Scarpello, Mathew Sutter, Susan Viguers, Paper: Mohawk Satin
2014
Blank Book
6.6" x 5.25"
Case Binding
2013
Blurb Books: Color Studies
7" x 7"
Black, White & Gray, Orange, Yellow, Green, Red, Blue
Blurb Books: Color Studies; a series of six books presenting color digital photographs
2009
The Farm
6.5" x 4.5"
Interpretive cover design: Golden Section collage composition from recycled book covers.
Text: Wendell Berry
Image printed on Habotai silk bookcloth
2016