There Are Spiders In The Jungle Book, Altered Book Carving art nouveau The book is sealed shut

The book is sealed shut and cannot be read

To date this is the largest book carving I have done

At the back of the book behind the trees is a water colour paint sky

All the illustrations on the inside of the book are from the book itself

I always find old medical books fascinating and sometime outrageous at the out of date information and terms

There Are Spiders In The Jungle Book, Altered Book Carving art nouveau The book is sealed shutThere are spiders in The Jungle Book, Book Carving by Echo Mines Studio. When this book came to the studio it has quite literally fallen apart, the stitching had come away and the fabric cover was coming away. It gave me the feeling of being in a shed full of cobwebs and eaten by snails. The book has been cleaned and given lots of TLC to save it from the bin. I have a book of spiders that I have wanted to use for a while and this idea came into being,