![The Orphaned Spaces box set. Featuring postcards, hand-stitched books, seeds, reliquary, archival prints.](https://ellasplace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BS_S_012_LR.jpg)
Last week I told you about my new illustrated book (with MW Bewick), The Orphaned Spaces published by our indie publishing company Dunlin Press, well here is the box set.
![The Orphaned Spaces box set. Featuring postcards, hand-stitched books, seeds, reliquary, archival prints.](https://ellasplace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BS_S_08-1024x683.jpg)
![The Orphaned Spaces box set. Featuring postcards, hand-stitched books, seeds, reliquary, archival prints.](https://ellasplace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BS_S_026-1024x683.jpg)
The Orphaned Spaces box set is such an undertaking of work that I had to give it a separate post.
When working on Dunlin Press projects, we’ve often described each book as ‘time capsules’. We aim for every publication to embody the mood and spirit of a place or region at a particular period of human history – like pressing a pause button or taking a picture. The Orphaned Spaces box set is a physical manifestation of this concept.
![Hand-stitched still lives booklet](https://ellasplace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/BS_S_043_LR-1024x682.jpg)
![Limited edition postcards, reliquary, seeds and archival prints. The Orphaned Spaces Box Set](https://ellasplace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boxsetcontents_6_LR-1024x740.jpg)
This highly limited edition, made-to-order box set, deconstructs the book The Orphaned Spaces, breaking it down into hand-stitched booklets, postcards, archival prints and a reliquary.
The box set contains the following elements:
1: Hand-stitched ‘Journal’
Coverstock: G.F SMith, Colorplan, fuchsia pink, 270gsm. Inset pages: G.F SMith, Colorplan, dark grey, 135gsm. Inner pages: ZANDERS ZETA, Unwatermarked Textured Paper, linen 100gsm,
2: Hand-stitched black and white studies booklet
Paper stock: Hahnemühle, Photo Rag, matte smooth, 188gsm
3: Hand-stitched wild flower still lives booklet
Paper stock: Hahnemühle, Photo Rag, matte smooth, 188gsm
4: 10 pressed plants fine art giclée prints
Printed on archival Hahnemühle, Photo Rag, bamboo, 290gsm
5: Six landscape postcards
6: A glass bottle ‘reliquary’
7: Wildflower seeds include a mixture of annual and perennial wildflower species and grasses.
8: Bookmark using G.F SMith, Colorplan, dark grey, 135gsm
![The Orphaned Spaces box set includes three individually hand-stitched books and archival prints plus seeds and reliquary](https://ellasplace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boxsetcontents_4-1024x683.jpg)
![The Orphaned Spaces box set includes three individually hand-stitched books and archival prints plus seeds and reliquary](https://ellasplace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Boxsetcontents_8-1024x715.jpg)
I’ve really made use of the 2010 Central St Martin book-binding summer course I attended during the past eight years. The box set features three hand-stitched booklets all bound by me. I really enjoy book-making so, what would feel like hard work for some feels like a kind of zen meditative process for me.
![Making the hand-stitched books for The Orphaned Spaces.](https://ellasplace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/handmade-boxset-wip7_LR.jpg)
![Making the hand-stitched books for The Orphaned Spaces.](https://ellasplace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/handmade-boxset-wip8LR.jpg)
You can buy the box set or the book at the Dunlin Press shop.