{"id":2913,"date":"2012-12-02T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:53","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-jan-sobota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/02\/bookbinder-of-the-month-jan-sobota\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Jan Sobota"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Jan Sobota produced several miniature bindings, which were included in various exhibitions. This binding of Edgar Allen Poe’s\u00a0The Black Cat<\/em> was published in a small edition of 20 by Jan and Jarmilla in 2009. This book-object was designed as a ‘Jack-in-the-Box’, the book is permanently attached to a spring that jumps forward as you open the lid. The black cat silhouette on the front cover is laser cut and finished with hand painting and tooling in white foil.<\/p>\n

The box is covered in black binders’ cloth and the lid is hand tooled in a pattern resembling a brick wall. The box measures 2.75″ x 2.75″ and the book measures 2.3″ x 2.3″.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

resource: J. & J. Book Arts Studio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan Sobota produced several miniature bindings, which were included in various exhibitions. This binding of Edgar Allen Poe’s\u00a0The Black Cat was published in a small edition of 20 by Jan and Jarmilla in 2009. This book-object was designed as a ‘Jack-in-the-Box’, the book is permanently attached to a spring that jumps forward as you open […]<\/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":[1867,483,480,482,485,484],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-bookbinding","tag-edgar-allen-poe","tag-jan-sobota","tag-jarmila-sobota","tag-miniature","tag-the-black-cat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-KZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3369,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/bookbinder-of-the-month-jan-sobota-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":2913,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Jan Sobota","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"December 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm finishing off this month of Jan Sobota bindings with another miniature book that was created in collaboration with his wife Jarmila. Inside the hand-sculpted robot lives an accordion book of sixteen panels. The text explores the birth and usage of the word \"robot\", which is first used by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "binder of the month"","block_context":{"text":"binder of the month","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/binder-of-the-month\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/asimov_sobota2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2764,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/01\/december-bookbinder-of-the-month-jan-sobota\/","url_meta":{"origin":2913,"position":1},"title":"December \/\/ Bookbinder of the Month: Jan Sobota","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"December 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Jan Sobota grew up engulfed by books, about 20,000 to be exact. His father was an avid collector of literature, most specifically children's literature, filling their small house to the brim with books. Every available square inch of wall space was covered with bookcases leaving only the windows and doors\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "binder of the month"","block_context":{"text":"binder of the month","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/binder-of-the-month\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/perrault4_jansobota.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/perrault4_jansobota.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/perrault4_jansobota.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/perrault4_jansobota.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3224,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/bookbinder-of-the-month-jan-sobota-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":2913,"position":2},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Jan Sobota","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"December 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In the spirit of Christmas, I offer this binding by Jan Sobota that appears like box within a box. In 1986, Sobota completed this layered book object of Frantisek Rachlik's\u00a0Komedie\u00a0plna lasky (Comedy Full of Love), a story about the life of Jindrich Mosna, a famous Czech actor during the nineteenth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "binder of the month"","block_context":{"text":"binder of the month","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/binder-of-the-month\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rachlik3_sobota.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rachlik3_sobota.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rachlik3_sobota.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rachlik3_sobota.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3061,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/16\/bookbinder-of-the-month-jan-sobota-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":2913,"position":3},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Jan Sobota","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"December 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This book object and stand were crafted by Jan Sobota in 1987, the book is Rimska Lyrika (Lyrics of the Roman Empire). The book is covered in natural calfskin with blind tooling, decorative edges and headbands. The stand is made of binders board and balsa wood covered with natural goatskin\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "binder of the month"","block_context":{"text":"binder of the month","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/binder-of-the-month\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"rimskalyrika_jansobota","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rimskalyrika_jansobota-964x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rimskalyrika_jansobota-964x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rimskalyrika_jansobota-964x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2943,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/09\/bookbinder-of-the-month-jan-sobota-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2913,"position":4},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Jan Sobota","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"December 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the course of 10 years, Jan Sobota participated in four Helen Warren DeGolyer Triennial Competitions. Every three years the Bridwell Library on Southern Methodist University's campus chooses a book from their collection to be rebound by an individual binder. Each participant offers a proposal binding for the chosen title\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "binder of the month"","block_context":{"text":"binder of the month","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/binder-of-the-month\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/degolyer2003proposal_jansobota-1024x644.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/degolyer2003proposal_jansobota-1024x644.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/degolyer2003proposal_jansobota-1024x644.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8402,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/17\/bookbinder-of-the-month-mark-cockram-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":2913,"position":5},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Mark Cockram","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"August 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Brush Up Your Shakespeare is a limited edition accordion from the Piccolo Press in New York. The text is a combination of music and words to the song Brush Up Your Shakespeare from the musical Kiss Me Kate (which is inspired by The Taming of the Shrew) and includes charming\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "binder of the month"","block_context":{"text":"binder of the month","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/binder-of-the-month\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BrushUpYourShakespeare5-MarkCockram.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BrushUpYourShakespeare5-MarkCockram.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BrushUpYourShakespeare5-MarkCockram.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BrushUpYourShakespeare5-MarkCockram.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14672,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/14672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}