This gives a close-up view of the Book Pins to show their foldformed spines. Book pins are hand formed by hammering, and held together entirely by being hammered into shape.
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Another experiment with the ‘spine’ foldform style. I knew when I started this that it would end up looking like a trilobite, but I didn’t let that stop me, despite our usual avoidance of representational work. The folding reduces the length of this piece by nearly two thirds. The resulting piece is about 8″x10″, and hangs either vertically or horizontally. It will be hard to make larger versions of this style for larger wall hangings until we build specialized tools to make them.
Here’s my version. There is a little bit of silver flowed along the longitudinal ridge. It is oxidized grey for the most part, but minimally polished at the peak of the ridge.
We don’t have a name for this style yet. David came up with this one a few days ago. My variant on it will follow soon.
