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Starting tomorrow at Buy Some Damn Art<\/a>, six of my books will be featured and on sale for six weeks. Follow my blog during that time to see a post on the making of each title. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve been greatly inspired by Art Deco bindings and wanted to incorporate that style into this binding of\u00a0Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/em><\/a> by Roald Dahl. As a child I read this story over and over, imagining blueprints of the underground tunnels created by those devious foxes. In the spirit of Art Deco design I simplified these underground channels, wrapping them around three colorful, geometric farmhouses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The binding is a variation on a German case structure<\/a> by Peter Verheyen where the boards are covered separately from the book. The spine and boards were covered with earth Hahnm\u00fchle Ingres. To make the farmhouses I layered various handmade and commercially made papers which include Moriki, Hahnm\u00fchle Ingres, Cave Paper<\/a> and Lokta. There is a line of red walnut Cave Paper running the width of each board representing the ground and dividing up the levels of the farmhouses; the walnut Cave Paper is the dirt far below the top soil, highlighting the tunnels around each farmhouse. The title was stamped in a sans serif typeface with brown foil.<\/p>\n

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The headbands are wrapped red walnut Cave Paper around cord. The edges were painted with an acrylic\/paste wash, once dry the edges were carefully brushed with sandpaper to give a more textural look. The end papers are red walnut Cave Paper. I loved using Cave Paper for this binding for a few reasons: the handmade quality, use of natural dyes and the textural characteristics seemed most suitable to represent the living, moist dirt deep underground. The book is housed in a clamshell box. The trays are covered in lime Moriki and lined with rose Hahnm\u00fchle Ingres and the case is covered with brown Canapetta.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Starting tomorrow at Buy Some Damn Art, six of my books will be featured and on sale for six weeks. Follow my blog during that time to see a post on the making of each title. \u00a0 I’ve been greatly inspired by Art Deco bindings and wanted to incorporate that style into this binding of\u00a0Fantastic […]<\/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":[68,8],"tags":[1867,367,173,370,368],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbinding","category-my-hand","tag-bookbinding","tag-buy-some-damn-art","tag-erin-fletcher","tag-fantastic-mr-fox","tag-roald-dahl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-yT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2247,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/my-hand-exhibition-on-buy-some-damn-art-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2163,"position":0},"title":"My Hand…Exhibition on Buy Some Damn Art","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"October 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the six Roald Dahl titles I rebound for Buy Some Damn Art. 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