For over a year now I have been toying with an idea to make a clay book. I especially wanted to feature several techniques, particularly my silkscreens in this book. I made 4 slabs and decorated them, but broke two before firing, so the other two (actually two sided), were just hanging around after bisque firing. I finally glazed them and fired them and this is what resulted:

I am not entirely happy and need to fine tune the idea a little. It is appealing though but the ceramic noise when pages come together is a little daunting. I just saw Ellen Currans Pottery on the west coast had a similar notion and made a book as well,

I like the way she treated the ends with thread to compensate for the sound. I had just laid out some paper pages that I was going add in the middle, maybe sewing them with threads, and with a little batting in the middle. Also have not dismissed the idea of fabric inserts also. A work in progress, I think I will try this again.
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