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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

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

2020 Let’s Eat Cake Project and Collaboration with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers

2020 Let’s Eat Cake Project and Collaboration with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers

2020 Let’s Eat Cake Project and Collaboration with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers

2020 Let’s Eat Cake Project and Collaboration with members of the Delaware Valley Guild of Book Workers

Blank Book 8” x 5”

Linocut

Linocut

Linocut

Linocut

Linocut

Linocut

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

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

Spine title: Modified Longstitch binding,

Cover: Chain stitch

2017

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

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

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

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: 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)

5" x 5"

Concertina Fold with handsewn red silk thread in EKG patterns. Text in encyclopaedic format.

2016

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

11" x 4.5"

Book case constructed to mimic Florentine window shutters, Binding: French Linkstitch, French Paper

2017

Florence - A Travel Journal

5.75" x 4.75"

Clam Shell Box, Silk Napkins, Case Bound book with Mohawk Superfine

2015

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

6" x 4"

Carousel Book, Recycled Christmas Cards

2015

Detail: Wishing you the gentle joys of this wonderful season

6" x 4"

Carousel Book, Recycled Christmas Cards

2015

Christmas Card 2016

3" x 4"

Letterpress and hand inked musical notes, edition of 40

2016

Merry Christmas, 2015

4" x 3"

Christmas Cards, edition of 32

Letterpress and woodcut, handmade envelopes

2015

5" x 5"

Ethiopian Binding, Cover: Blind debossed red leather

2014

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

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

4" x 6"

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

6.5" x 5"

Exposed Longstitch binding, multicolored French Paper

2013

Passage of Time

7" x 9"

Tunnel Book, Gold Thread Stitched on Acetate, Handmade paper

2015

Detail: Passage of Time

Tunnel Book, Gold Thread Stitched on Acetate, Handmade paper

2015

Detail: Passage of Time

7" x 9"

Tunnel Book, Gold Thread Stitched on Acetate, Handmade paper

2015

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

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

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

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

2.5" x 2.5"

Book: Accordion Binding handsewn with silk thread, text digitally printed on Habotai silk.

2017

Ex Libris

4" x 3"

Letterpress Bookplate

2016

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

3.5" x 3.5"

Ethiopian Binding with catgut, Cover: cedar wood

2014

Blank Book

5" x 3"

Cover Image: Michelangelo’s The Erythraean Sibyl, Secret Belgian Binding, Cave Paper

2016

Blank Book-Sauces

3" x 5"

Cover Image: Digital print of Sauces, Oil on board, Lisa Scarpello

2013

Sketch Journal

4" x 6"

Cover Image: Digital photo of the Walnut Street Bridge, Lisa Scarpello

2016

Blank Book

4" x 6"

Cover Image: Digital Photo of a Praying Mantis, Lisa Scarpello

2016

In-Between

4.5" x 11"

Drumleaf Binding, Collaborative Project of Positive & Negative Images,

Cover: digital image printed on Habotai silk book cloth

2016

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

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

6.6" x 5.25"

Case Binding

2013

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

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