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Posted on November 4, 2023
![An open cardboard box, showing the lining in paper printed with a medieval music manuscript. An open cardboard box, showing the lining in paper printed with a medieval music manuscript.]()
Thanks to All Saints’ Day, I’ve just had a 5 days weekend. One of those days I woke up and decided I absolutely needed a cartonnage box for the cardboard and linocut piecepack I’ve been working on for quite some time.
I started drawing a plan with measures before breakfast, then decided to change some important details, restarted from scratch, did a quick dig through the bookbinding materials and settled on 2 mm cardboard for the structure, black fabric-like paper for the outside and a scrap of paper with a manuscript print for the inside.
Then we had the only day with no rain among the five, so some time was spent doing things outside, but on the next day I quickly finished two boxes, at two different heights.
The weather situation also meant that while I managed to take passable pictures of the first stages of the box making in natural light, the last few stages required some creative artificial lightning, even if it wasn’t that late in the evening. I need to build1 myself a light box.
And then decided that since they are C6 sized, they also work well for postcards or for other A6 pieces of paper, so I will probably need to make another one when the piecepack set will be finally finished.
The original plan was to use a linocut of the piecepack suites as the front cover; I don’t currently have one ready, but will make it while printing the rest of the piecepack set. One day :D
![an open rectangular cardboard box, with a plastic piecepack set in it. an open rectangular cardboard box, with a plastic piecepack set in it.]()
One of the boxes was temporarily used for the plastic piecepack I got with the book, and that one works well, but since it’s a set with standard suites I think I will want to make another box, using some of the paper with fleur-de-lis that I saw in the stash.
I’ve also started to write detailed instructions: I will publish them as soon as they are ready, and then either update this post, or they will be mentioned in an additional post if I will have already made more boxes in the meanwhile.
- you don’t really expect me to buy one, right? :D↩︎
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •TIL: usare una stazione ad aria calda (quelle per saldare elettronica) per scaldare la #ceralacca funziona, non fa casini in giro, non richiede un tavolo libero da materiale infiammabile e aiuta anche nel caso in cui non si sia messa abbastanza ceralacca sulla carta, dato che permette di riscaldarla.
usare una fiamma però funziona molto meglio per l'esperienza del rituale di chiusura delle #lettere, però.
ma è bello sapere di avere entrambe le opzioni.
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pgcd
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •ho visto questa qualche giorno fa e - con letteralmente nessuna ragione MAI per sigillare lettere - sono stato tentato di comprarla immediatamente. Il ricordo dell'odore della ceralacca mi è caro.
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in reply to pgcd • •@pgcd fatto bene a non comprarla, quella è fondamentalmente colla a caldo, molto meglio la ceralacca originale :D
nessuna ragione per sigillare lettere? una qualche scusa si trova, no? basta un po' di impegno :D
pgcd
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •_credo_ (senza prove) che i cilindri siano di ceralacca o qualcosa di molto simile, almeno all'aspetto. La tentazione però era scollegata e più dovuta al fatto che sono un cartolerista compulsivo =)
Trovare scuse, invece, non sarebbe un grosso problema se almeno scrivessi una lettera ogni anno, ecco...
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to pgcd • •@pgcd conosci InCoWriMo? è una scusa per mandare ben 28 lettere (quest'anno 29), così, senza avere particolare motivo per farlo :D
(ma sì, ammetto che ultimamente inviare lettere non è proprio tra le priorità più alte della maggior parte delle persone)
pgcd
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@zarel uhm, no, ci ho provato così, nel modo ignorante.
solo fortuna? potrebbe
farò qualche altra prova in futuro. (questa volta la stazione era impostata sui 120°C, magari è quello che influisce)
Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@zarel ah, era cera sul bastoncino o quella in grani da sciogliere nel cucchiaio apposta?
la mia era bastoncino
Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@Kermode my partner is looking around with (rightful) despair at the amount of crafting tools and supplies that are around the house :D
in my defense the hot air station is his, not mine. but when he mentioned wanting to buy it I went in full enabler mode and encouraged him, and planned to use it too :D