{"id":11000,"date":"2017-04-09T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=11000"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:46:16","slug":"catching-up-with-hannah-brown-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/09\/catching-up-with-hannah-brown-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up With Hannah Brown \/\/ No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Randall Davies and His Books of Nonsense<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is bound in yellow goatskin with a hexagonal honeycomb pattern. Hannah Brown<\/a> used a variety of techniques to adorn the honeycomb, which include embroidery, gold, carbon and blind tooling, leather onlays and inlays, impressions and cut-outs through the boards. There are sixteen embroidered bees made from onlaid leather and Japanese tissue. Five gold-plated brass pieces are drilled and inserted through the boards. The lino-printed and embroidered endpapers share the same honeycomb pattern.<\/p>\n

The embroidered bees are quite captivating on this binding. What I\u00a0<\/strong>particularly love about them is your use of Japanese tissue. I\u2019ve not\u00a0<\/strong>considered using paper as an onlay for embroidery. Did you find that the\u00a0<\/strong>paper reacted differently to the embroidery? Have you used paper under\u00a0<\/strong>embroidery on other bindings?
\n<\/strong>This was the first binding on which I used Japanese tissue as an onlay. My main concern before doing it was that the glue would show through and\/or appear patchy on the surface. I did some tests and I managed to avoid this by wetting the tissue slightly during application in order to draw the adhesive through the paper evenly. When it dried the appearance was as I had hoped – it gave me the colour and delicate texture I wanted for the wings.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The paper was less forgiving than a leather onlay for the embroidery as it was more apparent if I pricked a hole in the wrong place! By applying the stitches the way I did to the wings the thread is protecting the paper as I it would be more susceptible to getting damaged if it were on the book without this surround.<\/p>\n

I have used Japanese paper since for onlays but not in the same way. I have used it as a backing for gold leaf, adhering the gold leaf to it in and cutting out shapes order to create gold onlays. I have been using this for my most recent binding commission, The Noble Knight Paris and Fair Vienne<\/em>, as it is a good way of getting around not having the right shape of finishing tool for all of the gold elements I want to include on the binding.<\/p>\n

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Randall Davies and His Books of Nonsense\u00a0is bound in yellow goatskin with a hexagonal honeycomb pattern. Hannah Brown used a variety of techniques to adorn the honeycomb, which include embroidery, gold, carbon and blind tooling, leather onlays and inlays, impressions and cut-outs through the boards. There are sixteen embroidered bees made from onlaid leather and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[240],"tags":[574,1877,2148],"class_list":["post-11000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","tag-hannah-brown","tag-interview","tag-randall-davies-and-his-books-of-nonsense"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-2Rq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11055,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/23\/catching-up-with-hannah-brown-no-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":11000,"position":0},"title":"Catching Up With Hannah Brown \/\/ No. 4","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"April 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year, Hannah Brown created this impeccable binding of Shakespeare's The Tempest. 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