*A la cartonnage

January 10, 2007 at 2:03 pm | Posted in Craft - Blogs, Craft - Books, Craft - How-to's, Craft - People, Craft - Websites | 8 Comments

French is just a languge too hard for me to learn. It seems to be a fashion to name one’s products with French names. Or it is only true in Japan?! Maybe it is much more romantic using a French name than English ones. Or, they tried to imply the techniques are from France? Since le duvet deux, I’ve seen quite a few Japanese crafting websites using French names. I saw another one recently. That’s Yumiko Komizawa(駒澤由美子)’s A la cartonnage.

As shown in the picture on the left, both Yumiko’s works and her website are about cartonnage (dont confused with Egyptian mummies), namely fabric(mostly cotton)-covered cartons. The technique can be traced back to France in 19th centry. There is a basic tutorial of how to make such nice boxes. In the galleries of Yumiko and some other people, you can find various applications of this technique.

Yumiko has published 3 books last year. My favorite is the first one, especially the box for coasters on the cover. I have to admit I like the coasters more than the box.

ISBN4309280455

The second one(ISBN430928065X) applies mainly Hawaii-style fabrics for cartonnages. No ideas about the third one. Thanks to a Chinese crafting blogger zoe(?) who are living in Japan, I’ve got a bunch of nice links related to this topic, including Japanese and French ones. (If you are interested in x-stitches/embroidery, dont miss one of zoe’s archives.)

1.Shops and tutorials

casane
Atelier M
Fabric House Bit
Fossette
Le Monde Du Cartonnage
Cartonnage
Ombelle

2.Personal BLOG

Comfortable Space
@telier A&G

http://le-cartonnage.net/index.html

Atelier PetitPoint
..neige+..
Webring of cartonnage lovers

3.Another person that has published 3 books on this topic:La Baguette

4. Related Japanese books

(1)デンマークに昔から伝わる刺繍のある小箱

(2)はじめてのカルトナージュ紙で作るフレンチテイストの雑貨小もの

(3)リネンで作る布箱雑貨はじめてのカルトナージュ

(4)紙で作る!―クイリング、スクラップブッキング、フランス額装、カルトナージュ

(5)厚紙クラフト―パリの伝統手芸カルトナージュ

Again, all these lists are from Zoe’s blog.

As for myself, I would rather use fabrics for sewing. It seems too extravagant for people, who do not have a huge collection of fabrics, to cover cartons with cottons. Nevertheless it’s still nice to read and learn some techniques like this. We can still use nice wrap paper for that.

Also from Japan, there is a nice tutorial of making paper-mache lampshade. That’s something I am interested to try.

BTW: via batixa’s blog, “the last knit” is another must-see video clip.

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