Banksia Seed Pod Books
Binding - Coptic
A brief text page highlights the importance of wood to humanity over the millennia. Each book is laden with a large assortment of images that reveal the incredible beauty and microarchitecture inherent in wood of a variety of species. Images include: macroscopic views using a dissecting microscope; scanning electron microscope images of internal structure in wood; light microscope photomicroscope images of histological stained sections of wood using both bright field and polarizing optics.
Materials - Covers are slices of Banksia tree seed pods from 5 to 1.5 inch heights. Coptic binding of signatures presents a variety of macroscopic, microscopic and Scanning Electron Microscope images revealing the microarchitecture of wood.
