Ruth O'Leary Textile Art

The slip case is now finished - here it is with the book in it, showing the spine: When I showed it made up but without the book it mi...

Time to assemble the slip case itself.  This is a sort of box that the book can slide in and out of, and so needs to fit the book quite snug...

Here's where we left things last time, supposedly with everything finished: It's not right, though: compared to the palm tree,...

I thought this was going to be fiddly, and it was! The branches themselves were straightforward enough, using lengths of pearl purl: ...

Onto the palm tree. Using short lengths of bright check wire (the same as for Mowgli's hair), I added the trunk of the tree as a serie...

As it's a bit complicated, I'll be doing the central section a bit at a time, starting with the little figure of Mowgli, seated at t...

The Red Bat is back from the picture framer, and here it is: It has a very plain wide black frame, and isn't glazed.  It's also...