Call for fabric: unbutton your skin for “The Quiltmaker”

One of the books I’ll be releasing next year is a handbound, limited edition of Mike Allen’s novella “The Quiltmaker”, a sequel to his Nebula Award-nominated horror story “The Button Bin”. I’ll be working with Mike’s wife Anita Allen again — recall it was Anita who created The Honey Month Corset, a spectacular piece of wearable book-art made from spare pages of Amal El-Mohtar’s collection The Honey Month.

Anita has issued the following call for fabric:

I need 18 people to send me fabric that matches their skin tone as exactly as possible. If you have a distinguishing birthmark, tattoo or other visual feature that marks your skin as distinctly yours, I’d like photos. I’ll recreate said mark on the fabric and use it to create the buttoned-together “Quiltmaker” book covers for Papaveria.

If you’re twisted enough to want in on this (and surely you must be if you’ve read this far) contact me at anita[dot]d[dot]allen[at]gmail[dot]com (replace bracketed words with corresponding characters) to get the finer details.

If you are interested in collaborating with us on this project, please contact Anita directly.

Thank you!