Butterfly Book Sketchbook by Erin Keane

Fallen (found) butterfly wings preserved in encaustic beeswax, Japanese Chiyogami end paper, hand-torn pages sewn with waxed linen thread, Coptic binding, artist-designed Butterfly Stitch for the body.  5"x 3" 

Erin Keane is a recipient of the Craft Futures Fund Relief grant Cohort 2025. Erin Keane is an artist working with photography, encaustic beeswax, and bookbinding. In photography, she explores the elasticity of light, and creates luminous paintings with photographic brushstrokes and layers of encaustic. In bookbinding, she explores innovative bindings and stitches, and designs encaustic book sculptures and journals to honor books as an art form.