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Woman draws famous book scenes on their pages

87 points by BerislavLopac 5y ago

kazinator 5y ago
I think that painting the edges of books served as protective function. Particularly with that stiff gold paint. When a book which has that golden coating is closed and packed into a bookshelf, the coating presents a surface that is likely harder to penetrate for pests like moths and worms. Possibly mould spores and such too.
- Hoasi 5y ago
  Protection on top of decoration is an excellent way to kill two birds with one stone.
forgotpwd16 5y ago
Article refers this to as fore-edge painting but fore-edge painting refers to art shown only when the edges are fanned so the art may surprise the one opening the book. Surprisingly, as it's considered an endangered craft[0], I found a TikToker doing that: https://www.tiktok.com/@brimariepaints https://www.tiktok.com/@brimariepaints. [0]: https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/fore-edge-painting/ https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/fore-edge-painting/
- jeppesen-io 5y ago
  > A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of book pages. There are two basic forms, including paintings on fanned edges and closed edges. For the first type, the book's leaves must be fanned, exposing the pages' edges for the picture to become visible. For the second closed type, the image is visible only while the book is closed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting > One of the most unusual types of book decoration is fore-edge paintings. These are books which have one or more of the top, fore or bottom edge painted https://www.abaa.org/member-articles/a-collectors-primer-to-the-wonders-of-fore-edge-painting https://www.abaa.org/member-articles/a-collectors-primer-to-... > Fore-edge paintings are scenes, portraits, or designs that are painted onto the edge of a book. Although some of these paintings are visible when the book is closed, such as is the case in the photo above, much of the time these paintings are covered over by gilded edges, so that the paintings only become visible when you fan the pages in the manner illustrated below. https://library.wustl.edu/news/fore-edge-paintings/ https://library.wustl.edu/news/fore-edge-paintings/
- Cerium 5y ago
  Thank you for sharing this. I have never seen fore-edge painting before and enjoyed watching those videos. Much better than the linked article.
simulationimin 5y ago
Would love to see 50 Shades of Grey.
smitty1e 5y ago
Fore-edge painting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting
andygcook 5y ago
It’d be interesting to see paintings of scenes from books that haven’t been made into movies, then diffing her mind’s eye from my own based on the description. E.g. What did Gollum to look like to her based on the description from the book? But I’d imagine it’s hard enough to paint like this, so probably easier to work off an image with input from a different medium than just words.
kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
Is it cynical to think this is basically an ad, and not that interesting or appropriate for HN?
- kwhitefoot 5y ago
  Even if it is an ad. that doesn't mean it is not interesting. At least I found it interesting and pleasing to look at.
- GavinMcG 5y ago
  Yep.
  - spiderice 5y ago
    Then I guess I'm cynical
- aetherspawn 5y ago
  My eye started twitching when I saw this linked to Buzzfeed and I had to check out.
- dillondoyle 5y ago
  I don't think it's an ad, I think it's buzzfeed chum - all they do now is copy and paste tweet threads and tiktoks. Personally I don't find the art or idea interesting enough to warrant a popular thread. Unless we're discussing why itself lol
- anotheryou 5y ago
  had to double check I really arrived there from hn...
kazinator 5y ago
The clamps remind me of a few times in the past when I did the same thing while binding ad-hoc books out of some printed materials. I clamped a little bit away from the edge to allow for glue penetration. Amazingly, you can do a half decent binding job just with copious amounts of white EVA glue holding all the pages together, followed by a simple cover for that spine, made of some stiff paper like non-corrugated boxboard (e.g. cereal box) or filing cabinet divider.
joshlemer 5y ago
This isn't appropriate for Hacker News IMO
junon 5y ago
Since when are we okay with buzzfeed hitting the front page of HN?

87 points by BerislavLopac 5y ago

I think that painting the edges of books served as protective function. Particularly with that stiff gold paint. When a book which has that golden coating is closed and packed into a bookshelf, the coating presents a surface that is likely harder to penetrate for pests like moths and worms. Possibly mould spores and such too.

Hoasi 5y ago
Protection on top of decoration is an excellent way to kill two birds with one stone.

forgotpwd16 5y ago

Article refers this to as fore-edge painting but fore-edge painting refers to art shown only when the edges are fanned so the art may surprise the one opening the book. Surprisingly, as it's considered an endangered craft[0], I found a TikToker doing that: https://www.tiktok.com/@brimariepaints https://www.tiktok.com/@brimariepaints. [0]: https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/fore-edge-painting/ https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/fore-edge-painting/

jeppesen-io 5y ago
> A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of book pages. There are two basic forms, including paintings on fanned edges and closed edges. For the first type, the book's leaves must be fanned, exposing the pages' edges for the picture to become visible. For the second closed type, the image is visible only while the book is closed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting > One of the most unusual types of book decoration is fore-edge paintings. These are books which have one or more of the top, fore or bottom edge painted https://www.abaa.org/member-articles/a-collectors-primer-to-the-wonders-of-fore-edge-painting https://www.abaa.org/member-articles/a-collectors-primer-to-... > Fore-edge paintings are scenes, portraits, or designs that are painted onto the edge of a book. Although some of these paintings are visible when the book is closed, such as is the case in the photo above, much of the time these paintings are covered over by gilded edges, so that the paintings only become visible when you fan the pages in the manner illustrated below. https://library.wustl.edu/news/fore-edge-paintings/ https://library.wustl.edu/news/fore-edge-paintings/
Cerium 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I have never seen fore-edge painting before and enjoyed watching those videos. Much better than the linked article.

simulationimin 5y ago

Would love to see 50 Shades of Grey.

smitty1e 5y ago

Fore-edge painting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting

andygcook 5y ago

It’d be interesting to see paintings of scenes from books that haven’t been made into movies, then diffing her mind’s eye from my own based on the description. E.g. What did Gollum to look like to her based on the description from the book? But I’d imagine it’s hard enough to paint like this, so probably easier to work off an image with input from a different medium than just words.

kwertyoowiyop 5y ago

Is it cynical to think this is basically an ad, and not that interesting or appropriate for HN?

kwhitefoot 5y ago
Even if it is an ad. that doesn't mean it is not interesting. At least I found it interesting and pleasing to look at.
GavinMcG 5y ago
Yep.
- spiderice 5y ago
  Then I guess I'm cynical
aetherspawn 5y ago
My eye started twitching when I saw this linked to Buzzfeed and I had to check out.
dillondoyle 5y ago
I don't think it's an ad, I think it's buzzfeed chum - all they do now is copy and paste tweet threads and tiktoks. Personally I don't find the art or idea interesting enough to warrant a popular thread. Unless we're discussing why itself lol
anotheryou 5y ago
had to double check I really arrived there from hn...

kazinator 5y ago

The clamps remind me of a few times in the past when I did the same thing while binding ad-hoc books out of some printed materials. I clamped a little bit away from the edge to allow for glue penetration. Amazingly, you can do a half decent binding job just with copious amounts of white EVA glue holding all the pages together, followed by a simple cover for that spine, made of some stiff paper like non-corrugated boxboard (e.g. cereal box) or filing cabinet divider.

joshlemer 5y ago

This isn't appropriate for Hacker News IMO

junon 5y ago

Since when are we okay with buzzfeed hitting the front page of HN?