{"id":10073,"date":"2015-10-25T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=10073"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:47:17","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-tini-miura-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/bookbinder-of-the-month-tini-miura-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Tini Miura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alice-TiniMiura.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10074\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/bookbinder-of-the-month-tini-miura-4\/alice-tinimiura\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alice-TiniMiura.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2100,1620\" 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=\"Alice-TiniMiura\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alice-TiniMiura-300x231.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alice-TiniMiura-1024x790.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alice-TiniMiura-1024x790.jpg\" alt=\"Alice-TiniMiura\" width=\"650\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alice-TiniMiura-1024x790.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alice-TiniMiura-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em> is one\u00a0of those titles that has been bound so many different ways and by so many different binders. In 1983, Tini Miura, added her binding to this list with her brightly colored, kaleidoscopic\u00a0design for an equally mind-bending story. This particular edition was published by the Pennyroyal Press in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Bound in red morocco with several onlays that run the spectrum of color between white and black with tooling in gold and green foil. The doublures are a dark red sheepskin and the edges have been in gilt in the rough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I love your interpretation of this book, the design emotes feelings of chaos and helplessness. In many of your designs you incorporate floral elements. What does the flower mean within your designs, specifically for this binding and in general?<br \/>\n<\/strong>It is a fairytale-like story and the things Alice\u00a0encounters, like rabbit, teapot, etc.\u00a0Therefore I chose fantasy flowers to make the whole interpretation happen in a \u201cwonderland\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers are a wonder of nature that bring joy &#8211; like \u00a0beautiful words. They do something to your soul, you feel alive and joyful (colors and music does that to me as well).<\/p>\n<div>When I do a book and see the design in my head, the design becomes this image which I physically execute. After reading the story, if it is not worldwide known literature, I often understand the design after I read the book. I know that is weird. But I feel it is a present and I don\u2019t ever change or complain &#8211; just go with it.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Another reoccurring design element are the built up areas of tiny tooled shapes, which usually flow across the binding. What can you say about the use of this in your work?<br \/>\n<\/strong>The small dots or squares are my &#8220;Pixie&#8221; dust, magic or wonderment in the words or stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland is one\u00a0of those titles that has been bound so many different ways and by so many different binders. In 1983, Tini Miura, added her binding to this list with her brightly colored, kaleidoscopic\u00a0design for an equally mind-bending story. This particular edition was published by the Pennyroyal Press in 1982. Bound in [&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":[1909,969,1867,1148,1908,1092],"class_list":["post-10073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-alices-adventures-in-wonderland","tag-binding","tag-bookbinding","tag-leather-binding","tag-pennyroyal-press","tag-tini-miura"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-2Ct","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10040,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/18\/bookbinder-of-the-month-tini-miura-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":10073,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Tini Miura","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"October 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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