Gorgeous little things

Well, little and not so little really.  I just wanted to show to the world some of the amazing handmade books and other bookarts from the weekend.

First up, Elizabeth Willow's 'Waving at the queen' - a beautiful little letterpressed book on a soft grey paper, telling a tale that sounds very fairytale because of the way it's written, but is actually a little cameo of, I suspect, the sort of meetings that happen to Elizabeth a lot.  She met a man who asked her what she was carrying:

and he told her that he had waved to the queen, and she had waved back and:

Simple, but haunting in the strangeness that Elizabeth gives to it.

Gemma Lacey has collaborated with David Armes for their book Pi ta pi - she provides the etchings of rain from that first drop, then a little more, and a little more until there is a steady downpour, and David provides a letterpress version of the same process.

And then there was a collagraph by Catherine Harnett, made into a book with the addition of some words from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and Susan Kruse's Fairy Tale written over original fairy tales (and given to me in a paper bag made from some accordion music, which I'm determined to try out on the piano some time), and Nancy Campbell's translation of Rimbaud's Le Bateau Ivre in a beautiful indigo paper cover and letterpressed on a buttery soft paper and oh! so many lovely things.

And not so little at all, but poster sized instead, Andrew Morrison's King of Birds: