This project came about as a result of my Creative Books Work course. The brief was to create an artists book inspired by Maps, hence the MapBook project title.

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My inspiration for this project came from a regular walk I did near Arthur’s Seat and for a long time, I wanted to do a project about it. I decided I wanted to map all the interesting textures of Arthur’s Seat and used mapping techniques such as using a grid and sketching onto square paper to collect my initial data.

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This was the perfect project to incorporate my Textiles Degree. I decided to use felting, a punch pen, knitting and embroidery to create different textures. Caroline Saxby inspired me mainly to use felting and embroidery as she does something similar but with the sea as inspiration.

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Instead of my book being bound together with a physical binding, I chose to ‘bind’ them together with the subject matter. This made me realise that my definition for a book was “pages that are collated together”. This is a very vague definition, but it gives me the scope to really explore what I can do with a book form.

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It is important for me when my book is published that people would be able to touch and feel it. The materials I made the book out of are very tactile and I want people to be able to ‘dig’ around the pages. From this, I realised my book would be published in an art exhibition where you can touch the work and hear the sounds of the wind and the birds around you.

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This MapBook project made me realised that I wanted to create one of a kind books which could not recreated. They are one of a kind pieces that make them special to have and hold! Take a little look at the video below to see the samples in detail.