Martin Frost’s Fore-edge Painting.

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Book & Lit, Pictures on March 13, 2006 at 2:39 pm


What is fore-edge painting? Martin explains:

Fore-edge painting is where the page block is fanned and an image applied to the stepped surface. If the page edges are themselves gilded or marbled, this results in the image disappearing when the book is relaxed. When refanned, the painting magically re-appears.

Link | Cool video of fore-edge painting (via Milk and Cookies)

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3 comments to "Martin Frost’s Fore-edge Painting."

  1. Norwood Matt
    March 13th, 2006 at 5:55 pm

    This is just too cool.

  2. gail
    March 14th, 2006 at 8:50 am

    I’ve seen double sided ones in the Rare Book Room at the University of Illinois. If you slide the pages one way you get one picture and if you slide them the other way you get a completely different picture.

  3. Charge Controller
    October 21st, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    That is unbelievable!


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