Boxing

I'm not really a fan of the sport boxing.
But I've discovered that I'm very much a fan of Making Boxes.
Box making is kind of a sister to book binding, and uses many of the same materials and skills used there.
Over the last couple of days I've made several boxes in various techniques, materials and sizes.

 The top box in that stack is the smalles I've made so far. It's a little over 3"x3" and only about 2" tall. To cover the cardboard I used bookbinders linen (which is linen glued to a paper foundation) and the result of some printing experiments I did last time I played with paper.

For the inside lining of this box I used some marbling paper I've made. I didn't like that paper very much as it's very faint, but for the lining it is perfect. The outside covering is from one of my paste paper experiments. This box now holds some of the stamps I carved (one of which I used for the next box)

This box is made with some simple origami technique. It comes together very quickly and is perfect if you need something to spruce up a small gift. The paper is from yet another printing experiment, and I like it very much (I may need to make another sheet of this)

Last, but certainly not least (those are not the last boxes I'm making!), is this box I made to hold some old pictures my parents made when they went to Italy in 1955. I used part of a map of Italy for the cover, and like a lot how it came out.