It took me several false starts to think it through (use rough paper till you get the hang of it), but eventually ta-da!! the perfect concertina box pleat The hardest bit was working out how to create a pleated dress shape. Armed with scissors, a bone folder and – of course – a nutritional glass of wine, I set about playing with ideas and choosing the loveliest and most interesting maps. Inspired by amazing paper dresses like these, I decided to have a go at making a piece of art for my friend’s newborn daughter to hang in her nursery. It had pages and pages of beautiful old maps and charts of the constellations in each hemisphere (I think I’ll frame these two as a set I can’t bear to cut them up.) One of my recent buys was this Collins Graphic Atlas I’ve no idea of the age but it was certainly pre-decimalisation, given the princely sum of 5 shillings… It’s here I gravitate towards and where I’ve found a myriad of wild and wonderful books, maps, charts and music scores over the years which have steadily formed a small paper drift in my studio, waiting for inspiration to strike. Amongst the shelves of nearly-new thrillers and bodice-rippers, travel guides and cookbooks there is a large, open-fronted cupboard marked ‘Ephemera: Misc’. I live in a small village which is blessed with not one but three – three – second-hand bookshops.
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