The history of BLUE 💙
Chemist Heinz Berke remarked: 'early mankind had no access to blue because blue is not what you call an earth colour... you don't find it in the soil.' The rarity and difficulty of accessing blue pigment encouraged civilisations to imbue the colour with mystical properties. 🪄 ✍🏻 @baytal.fann. The beauty of adding blue to tezhip… If we take a moment to examine tezhip in Istanbul during the reign of Mehmed II, cobalt blue comes to the fore as the most commonly used background color after gold, which was used in both matte and gloss finishes. Incredible work by @ozgeinan.art #worldofronati #calligraphypens #pen #tezhip #klasiktezhip #art #artist #islamicart #hatsanati
The mastery of book binding and restoration by @wainwrightbookbinding The final part of our journey with this 18th c. binding 🥹 My client wanted to give her treasured book a new life with something a little bit extra 💫 We used my original marbled papers for the endpapers, hand sewn endbands, leather cover and gold-foiled spine details ✨ 👀 Spot me peeking through the “Oxford Hollow”, this structure allows the text block to pop away from the spine and the pages to lie flat 👌 #craft #handmade...