{"id":4021,"date":"2013-02-17T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:28:43","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-hannah-brown-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/17\/bookbinder-of-the-month-hannah-brown-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Hannah Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wordstoliveby_hannahbrown1\"<\/a>Words to Live By<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was bound by Hannah Brown<\/a> in 2009 in a cream alum-tawed goatskin with various leather onlays in green, black, grey and turquoise. Additional leaf pieces of acid-etched stainless steel are hand-sewn onto covers with metallic thread; leaf outlines are machine-sewn. Various hand-pierced leaves and plant details in brass and silver are scattered throughout the design. Hand-tooling in carbon and Moon gold with hand-made finishing tools. Head edge of text block is painted with turquoise acrylic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"glimpsesofnature_hannahbrown1\"<\/a>In 2009, Hannah Brown<\/a> bound\u00a0<\/em>Glimpses of Nature<\/em><\/a> by Andrew Wilson in a mustard-yellow goatskin with various leather onlays in dark brown, black and grey. Each dandelion seed head was hand-sewn with white and metallic thread. The binding also includes three hand-pierced and drilled brass dandelions. Hand-tooling in carbon and gold with hand-made finishing tools.<\/p>\n

\"glimpsesofnature_hannahbrown2\"<\/a>More dialogue after the jump…<\/p>\n

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These bindings are quite similar, floral elements are scattered throughout your work. Are you particularly attracted to flowers as a design element?\u00a0
<\/b>Yes, I am particularly drawn to flowers as a design element (as you have seen from my pictures of the Shakespeare competition binding), but more broadly to nature as a whole. I find it very hard to design and make abstract covers, the majority of my designs to date being quite literal.<\/p>\n

The bookmark ribbon with metal charm appear throughout your earlier work, but cease in your later work. Any reason for this?
<\/b>The bookmark charms were a fun design detail that I\u00a0used a lot in my early bindings, however it was suggested to me a few years back that it gave my bindings a \u2018trade\u2019 appearance, so I decided to steer away from doing this in my later work.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Words to Live By\u00a0was bound by Hannah Brown in 2009 in a cream alum-tawed goatskin with various leather onlays in green, black, grey and turquoise. Additional leaf pieces of acid-etched stainless steel are hand-sewn onto covers with metallic thread; leaf outlines are machine-sewn. 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