{"id":4891,"date":"2013-03-17T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:25:59","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-lori-sauer-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/17\/bookbinder-of-the-month-lori-sauer-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Lori Sauer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brothergiles-lorisauer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4892\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/17\/bookbinder-of-the-month-lori-sauer-3\/brothergiles-lorisauer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brothergiles-lorisauer.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"682,285\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"brothergiles-lorisauer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brothergiles-lorisauer.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4892\" alt=\"brothergiles-lorisauer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brothergiles-lorisauer.jpg\" width=\"682\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brothergiles-lorisauer.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brothergiles-lorisauer-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book was bound in 2009 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beechingstoke.plus.com\/personal\/lori_sauer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lori Sauer<\/a> as a modified sewn-board binding with a wooden spine. The boards are covered in natural vellum and the spine is attached with threads and vellum strips that are laced into the boards. I find the unusual pattern of the vellum to be quite alluring; it adds a great amount of depth and texture.\u00a0The doublures are Japanese paper with suede flyleaves. The doublures are embroidered with silk in a crosshatch motif, inspired by the method used in the illustrations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brother-giles-illustrations.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4894\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/17\/bookbinder-of-the-month-lori-sauer-3\/brother-giles-illustrations\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brother-giles-illustrations.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"960,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"brother giles illustrations\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brother-giles-illustrations-768x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4894\" alt=\"brother giles illustrations\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brother-giles-illustrations-768x1024.jpeg\" width=\"469\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brother-giles-illustrations-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brother-giles-illustrations-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/brother-giles-illustrations.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beechingstoke.plus.com\/personal\/brother_giles.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Life and Chapters of Sundry Goodly, Sayings of the Teachings of Brother Giles<\/em><\/a> was printed by the City of Birmingham School of Printing in 1941 with illustrations by Neil Leitch MacCuaig. The book is comprised of wise words and sayings by a companion of St Francis, Brother Giles.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book was bound in 2009 by Lori Sauer as a modified sewn-board binding with a wooden spine. The boards are covered in natural vellum and the spine is attached with threads and vellum strips that are laced into the boards. I find the unusual pattern of the vellum to be quite alluring; it adds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,68,13],"tags":[836,1867,813,814,744,76],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-beechingstoke","tag-bookbinding","tag-brother-giles","tag-city-of-birmingham-school-of-printing","tag-lori-sauer","tag-vellum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1gT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4997,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/bookbinder-of-the-month-lori-sauer-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":4891,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Lori Sauer","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"March 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Topiary\u00a0by Cecil Stewart\u00a0is about the art of clipping and sculpting foliage to maintain a clearly defined shape, like a geometric design or animal. 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