Anaguma No Iori

I made this because I thought the house would need a guest book.

After a few days of mulling it over, I made this.

The pages are 11 × 14-inch khadi paper, folded into quires, drilled with a Dremel tool, and individually sewn with linen twine. Once the quires were assembled, I glued the spine with Barge cement, wrapped it in linen, and compressed it for a few days.

The covers began as two lovely pieces of close-grained oak, which I butterflied—butterflew?—on the bandsaw. I opened one side and assembled a sort of miniature shoji-like door, except that instead of looking outside, it looks onto the paper of the book.

Final assembly: more Barge cement and some leather.

The house did, in fact, need a logbook.