eelskin leather feather, Italian glove leather patchwork on bookbinders mull in process for Crow Book IV
Crow Book 3 is nearly full
detail of the leather needle that Margaret Johnson gave me last year 
and these exquisite vintage scissors just arrived from Richard Carbin in Japan
PS a few hours later , I like it better without the eelskin feather, sometimes less is more…
crow book IV in process
Posted: April 13, 2016 by Mo Crow in It's Crow TimeTags: bookbinding, crows, feathers
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It's Crow Time 
That ‘feather’ is a work of art in itself!
thanks Leonie, will work out what it wants to do… it’s looking a bit too much like the New Zealand All Blacks rugby logo at the moment !
Can’t have that!
hehe!
This is absolutely gorgeous Mo
it’s looking good pasted down with the lining in place and the edges turned in, those scissors are brilliant!
wow! that eelskin feather looks amazing. and the stitched leather is so beautiful
had a lot of fun making the eelskin feather and it will work somewhere else (maybe a big amulet) but the feel of that fine Italian glove leather is enough for the book
Materials dictate the process.
and can be quite bossy about it too!
Your patchwork of black on black, criss-crossed stitches is very beautiful. There’s a lot to see within it all.
it’s like a crazy paving path, just used the biggest bits possible for the space
i will be waiting for what the Feather chooses…it’s very Amazing, but yes, strong
for the book
the feather is waiting while the book goes ahead with some patched pages as the paper I wanted to use is no longer available anywhere… !
Mo, it’s so good to be back, you never stop to amaze me, you have been given magical hands
love
good to see you back Yvette!
Mo, thanks for the link you placed at Grace!
Richard Flanagan is a powerful writer, for those who haven’t read about his journey with the artist Ben Quilty to the Syrian refugee camps here’s the link
Waiting……………………
the very black book will be finished tomorrow (handpainting the edges of all the pages with the deepest black ink is taking quite awhile but looking good) & the eelskin feather is still gestating…
can’t wait to see it finished… like Cindy, I find the black cross-stitches so compelling… reminding me of healing sutures
just past the witching hour here in the Land Down Under, it will be finished by dawn
So good to see your process, Mo, having already seen the finished book. The leather looks delicious! The feather is magical, and will find its own way of course.
I am going to stitch a guitar string into the back of the eelskin “feather”, Bronwyn gave me the perfect river she-oak root for the handle for another divining rod amulet but am taking a few days out to get the photos & price list together for Madeleine at Artsite Gallery for the promo pics for the Crow Show!