{"id":1691,"date":"2012-09-30T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:31:55","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-sybil-pye-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/30\/bookbinder-of-the-month-sybil-pye-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Sybil Pye"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even though this book is more heavily tooled then her other bindings, she keeps to the same rhythm of repeating her signature tools in order to create the design. \u00a0The same tool is used in each corner and lines are used to break up the already complex design. This edition of Francois Villon’s\u00a0Ballades and Miscellaneous Poems<\/em> was printed in 1900 by the Eragny Press and bound by Sybil in 1928. \u00a0Covered in red goatskin over 5 raised bands, the design also includes onlays of green and natural goatskin. This book can be seen in detail online at the British Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though this book is more heavily tooled then her other bindings, she keeps to the same rhythm of repeating her signature tools in order to create the design. \u00a0The same tool is used in each corner and lines are used to break up the already complex design. This edition of Francois Villon’s\u00a0Ballades and Miscellaneous […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,68,13],"tags":[1867,258,314,75,235,251],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-bookbinding","tag-british-library","tag-francois-villon","tag-leather","tag-sybil-pye","tag-tooling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-rh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1395,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/bookbinder-of-the-month-sybil-pye-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1691,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Sybil Pye","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"September 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The British Library houses an immense collection of bookbindings. 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