{"id":3224,"date":"2012-12-23T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:23","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-jan-sobota-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/bookbinder-of-the-month-jan-sobota-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Jan Sobota"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rachlik_sobota\"<\/a>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\u00a0<\/em>plna lasky (Comedy Full of Love)<\/i>, a story about the life of Jindrich Mosna, a famous Czech actor during the nineteenth century. Each layer of the book object represents three different costumes from his most important roles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The book object lives inside a box sculpted out of board to mimic a newspaper reporter’s jacket. It is covered in natural sheepskin and includes buttons and a pocket with document, with details outlined in blind tooling. The second layer of protection is a slipcase modeled after a soldier’s uniform. Also sculpted out of board, the slipcase is covered in blue calfskin with onlays of various colors embellishing the jacket. Blind tooling is also used to finish off the details.\"rachlik2_sobota\"<\/a> \"rachlik3_sobota\"<\/a>Finally, the boards of this box-binding are sculpted with board to represent the costume of a Czech peasant, covered in white goatskin and natural cowhide. Relief onlays, gold and blind tooling complete the design.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 century. 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