Dear Everyone ~
I’m reviving my Studio Sale tradition of packaging amazing assortments of scraps & snippets from around the globe. Each piece is a remnant — and a reminder — of bookbinding projects past.
Most of the papers are Japanese, vintage treasures as well as newer patterns. Each bag, of course, is uniquely unique, and they all include a smattering of hand-marbled papers from the U.K. and The Continent.
I use scraps like these to cover mini-pencils & butterfly clips. Most recently, I’ve taken to glueing a snippet or shard on an envelope back (or front) just for the fun of it. It looks swatchy or patchworky, a touch of colour & pattern. And delights me to no end.
Scrap-happiness is in the air … and on the page! My many uses of scraps are showcased in the new issue of Uppercase magazine, in an article by my friend and postal muse Alyson Kuhn. Bari Zaki Studio has an entire spread in the article, titled Snippets and Slices and Shards, oh my! The subtitle, Little bits of paper and the ways we love them, makes my heart smile from ear to ear. If you don’t subscribe to Uppercase, you can buy the current issue on the magazine’s lovely site.
Extremely happy, Bari