Re: [lace] decorating book covers with lace

[Diane Z]

As a lurker, I'll chime in on this one as I'm an ex bookcover maker.

Weronika, you're right in thinking that lace is too fragile to be wrapped 
around the bottom of a book cover and slid over a shelf.  So just skip the 
edges!.  When I had art, or fragile fabric to use for a turned edge (glued) 
cover, I would always suggest mounting it in some type of frame device.  So, 
make a frame of some type, fabric, ribbon, printed paper wrapped over board 
(or not) and then mount your lace inside of it in some way.  You can always 
use spray adhesive on the lace itself and mount down.  Or, tack it down with 
a needle on a complementary colored cloth, cover with plastic and tuck it 
all under a frame glued to the surface of the binder.


I've found that even though you build up the surface thickness of the cover 
with a framing device, it usually never gets damaged on the book shelf.


Diane Zierold
Lubec, Maine 


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Re: [lace] decorating book covers with lace

[Lorri Ferguson]

I personally would not use lace on an outer cover, unless it were under
plastic.
But decorating inner pages with lace would be great.  For the cover you might
use one of the many 'lace pattern' papers.  Check the specialty papers in the
scrap book, wedding depts. and office supply stores.  I found a beautiful
'lace pattern' paper at WalMart several years ago.
If you want to use your own 'real lace' how about scanning the piece and using
the scan on the cover.

Lorri


  I recently started scrapbooking.  I have a few albums, all of which
  have boring single-color covers.  So naturally I thought about decorating
  them with lace!  How would you go about that?
  1. How would you attach the lace?  Glue?  Try sewing it (I'm not sure
whether
  that would even work with this sort of hard cover, but I guess I could sew
it
  to a piece of fabric and then glue that onto the cover)?  Or maybe put it
  in a plastic pocket and only glue that to the book?
  2. Should I just use wire lace?  If I did thread lace, I'd be worried about
  it getting damaged from the constant pulling albums off the bookshelf...
  3. Pattern ideas, anyone?

  Weronika

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[lace] decorating book covers with lace

[Weronika Patena]

I've been thinking of asking this for a while, and since everyone's
complaining about the silence...

I recently started scrapbooking.  I have a few albums, all of which 
have boring single-color covers.  So naturally I thought about decorating
them with lace!  How would you go about that? 
1. How would you attach the lace?  Glue?  Try sewing it (I'm not sure whether
that would even work with this sort of hard cover, but I guess I could sew it
to a piece of fabric and then glue that onto the cover)?  Or maybe put it
in a plastic pocket and only glue that to the book?
2. Should I just use wire lace?  If I did thread lace, I'd be worried about
it getting damaged from the constant pulling albums off the bookshelf...
3. Pattern ideas, anyone?

Weronika

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Weronika Patena
Stanford, CA, USA
http://vole.stanford.edu/weronika

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