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Post by Addalaide on Aug 28, 2006 16:06:19 GMT -5
Ok well i made this book resently that looks old, and well its the wap you can age almost anything really. But i made a Tutorial on how to do it. www.geocities.com/ccr.fan/book.htmlYes there are misspelling, i know i just dont wanna fix them tell i move the tut to its final link. But if you dont understand something, ask me and i will try and explan it better. |
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Post by Abstract on Aug 28, 2006 23:46:23 GMT -5
Hmmm.... Could you use tea instead of coffee?
I can't stand the smell of coffee.
Really old books usually have leather covers. You can get leather and suede and faux fabrics similar to leather at any sort of fabric store.
Or if your using some other sort of fabric you could fade it in the sun to give it more of an aged look.
I just had another idea! To get wrinkled pages you could put the books in the dryer. That would work wouldn't it?
Ok now I have some experimenting to do!
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Post by Addalaide on Aug 29, 2006 3:10:24 GMT -5
lol, well i didnt have leather, so i used what i had.
And the tea didnt work, maby you can make it like alot stronger than i did and it will work. good luck in finding out new ways! tell me when you do.
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Post by Abstract on Aug 29, 2006 22:04:24 GMT -5
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Post by Addalaide on Aug 29, 2006 22:22:13 GMT -5
Yeah like in the picture it originaly had a hard color....but it didnt last threw the work, so i removed the little sliver of peper that was still intached and looked for a while befor i saw the fabric, and then hunted down dubble sided tape.
I had absulutly no luck with tea, didnt do anything at all to the paper.other than make it smell like tea, it gave it a very very very light color and it whould have teken me days just to get one page to look right
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Post by Abstract on Aug 29, 2006 22:31:13 GMT -5
Hmmm. You can't submerge paper like you can submerge fabric....
I'll try it and see if some strong black tea works.
What kind of tea did you use?
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Post by Addalaide on Aug 29, 2006 22:35:46 GMT -5
Very stong....apple and spice...lol its all i have in the cabnet i was willing to part with.
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Post by Abstract on Mar 1, 2007 20:42:53 GMT -5
We have a lot of different teas, but I don't drink them. They taste like wood, like I put wood in the kettle (or cup, depending) and boiled it up good. Blech!
I've yet to actually do this to an entire book, I'm such a slacker.
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Post by Maverick on Apr 2, 2007 23:24:52 GMT -5
to the talk about tea, ive had some very good teas. i like them flavored though..even if its just with some honey its a million times better then plain. i really like green tea with honey.
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Post by Abstract on Apr 3, 2007 0:43:11 GMT -5
Well, actually, we were talking about doing things other than drinking the tea. Or coffee, or what have you.
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Post by Abstract on Apr 13, 2007 21:17:09 GMT -5
So I've finally tried this out!
I used an old pair of jeans for the cover of my book. I cut off the back and the pockets are the cover.
I had a bunch of tea so I tested them all out and I found that orange and chamomile worked the best. I mixed both of those and then mixed some very very strong coffee with that.
I laid my paper flat on the counter and covered it with the tea-coffee mix, let it sit for about 20 minutes, flipped it and covered it again. Then after another 20min I took the paper to a dry surface and blow dried it for a crinkled-edge look.
It turned out awesome!
I sewed the paper into the jeans and viola! Book!
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Post by Maverick on Apr 17, 2007 21:19:11 GMT -5
So I've finally tried this out! I used an old pair of jeans for the cover of my book. I cut off the back and the pockets are the cover. I had a bunch of tea so I tested them all out and I found that orange and chamomile worked the best. I mixed both of those and then mixed some very very strong coffee with that. I laid my paper flat on the counter and covered it with the tea-coffee mix, let it sit for about 20 minutes, flipped it and covered it again. Then after another 20min I took the paper to a dry surface and blow dried it for a crinkled-edge look. It turned out awesome! I sewed the paper into the jeans and viola! Book! Curious to see what the finished product would look like. |
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Post by Abstract on May 21, 2007 20:39:29 GMT -5
When I have a free minute in the next week or so, I'll post a few photos of the finished book.
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