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book covering contest.
we are going to be reading the Merchant of Venice and with our books, they need to be covered. they have to also pertain to the elizabethan era. one example shown in class was velvet with jewels and a ribbon. i want to be completely creative and conjure up a great cover. any ideas? i will give feedback to any help! (: thank you so much!
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well that sounds like a fun project, and i'll try to help all i can.
one thing you might think of is that when it was written only the most precious and valuable books were made to look very fancy, and this was just a play by some current playwright, nothing all to valuable. in fact the oldest prints are rather mundane, as seen by this 1600's printing:
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so if you were trying to keep it historical that would be a good rout to take it. but if your looking for something fancier you could try maybe leather, many books of the day were bound in that, but it may be unnecessary. they also used a lot of gilding to make their books pretty, as seen here:
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so i was thinking one thing you could do very easily is get a normal book cover and a can of gold spray paint, then make a pattern or a template for it and cut it out so you spray only the areas you want and paint it, with maybe a ribbon for a book mark. if you wanted you could stick a costume brooch right in the middle too.
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Hmmmm... well, you know how in the Elizabethan era they wore those great big round Elizabethan collars? You could put something like that on the cover, or around the whole book. Here's some pics:
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Or you could make the cover look like a whole shirt, with the collar thing at the top and decorations down the front, like this:
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well, that is a good idea.
I'm thinking of these as I'm writing.
They used to wear lots of frills and ruffles during that time so You could use lace. You can go to like Wal-mart to the fabric section and find good, cheap lace. (you can use the lace instead of the ribbon). Also, on say the dresses during that time, they had lots of beads. you can use little beads as a border. you could also do something with a leather shoe string.
velvet is a good idea for the cover, you could also use fake fur.
they were very religous at that time so maybe you could have a cross or some religious symbol like that.
you caould also try to attach a chain (like a necklace) but it might be hard to find something like that cheap.
bows were used on dresses. You can use some.
Beads are good. You can use beads and if you want cut them out and use them as pearls.
that's all i've got for know. Hope it helped or sparked some ideas of your own :)
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