{"id":10040,"date":"2015-10-18T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=10040"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:47:17","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-tini-miura-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/18\/bookbinder-of-the-month-tini-miura-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Tini Miura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AGlimpseOfThomasTraherne-TiniMiura.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10033\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/bookbinder-of-the-month-tini-miura-2\/aglimpseofthomastraherne-tinimiura\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AGlimpseOfThomasTraherne-TiniMiura.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AGlimpseOfThomasTraherne-TiniMiura\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AGlimpseOfThomasTraherne-TiniMiura-300x212.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AGlimpseOfThomasTraherne-TiniMiura.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AGlimpseOfThomasTraherne-TiniMiura.jpg\" alt=\"AGlimpseOfThomasTraherne-TiniMiura\" width=\"650\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AGlimpseOfThomasTraherne-TiniMiura.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AGlimpseOfThomasTraherne-TiniMiura-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another one of my favorite bindings from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinimiurabookbinding.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tini Miura<\/a>. This edition of <em>A Glimpse of Thomas Traherne<\/em> includes illustrations by Ann Brunskill and was published in 1978 by The Worlds End Press in London. The design on this binding is like an\u00a0abstract puzzle compiled of &#8220;pieces&#8221; that represent parts of Traherne&#8217;s poetry to offer a picture of his creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Bound in 1990 in yellow morocco where each onlay is a single, unique color. The title is stretched across the binding and each letter is created through repetitive tooled dots through brown foil. Tini creatively ties together the title and puzzle by tooling a diamond motif through brown foil strewn\u00a0in the negative spaces between the onlays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is one of the few examples where the title is transformed into a design element. Can you talk about why for this particular binding, you chose to display the title this way as opposed to using type?<br \/>\n<\/strong>The colored onlay pieces are freely moving over the surface, like a line of a poem is following the former to make a verse. The overall image represents the several verses that\u00a0make up the poem.<\/p>\n<div>If I had used letters, then I would have felt\u00a0an interruption in the free flow of the onlay &#8220;verses&#8221;. The &#8220;dotted&#8221; words\u00a0of the title are, so to speak a &#8220;miniature&#8221; image of the flowing line of colored &#8220;verses&#8221;.\u00a0Kind of two interpretations of the same idea &#8211; making spoken words visible, like the vibrations of energy they are.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one of my favorite bindings from Tini Miura. This edition of A Glimpse of Thomas Traherne includes illustrations by Ann Brunskill and was published in 1978 by The Worlds End Press in London. The design on this binding is like an\u00a0abstract puzzle compiled of &#8220;pieces&#8221; that represent parts of Traherne&#8217;s poetry to offer a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,68,13],"tags":[1904,1867,1092],"class_list":["post-10040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-a-glimpse-of-thomas-traherne","tag-bookbinding","tag-tini-miura"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-2BW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10073,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/bookbinder-of-the-month-tini-miura-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":10040,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Tini Miura","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"October 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one\u00a0of those titles that has been bound so many different ways and by so many different binders. 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