{"id":5787,"date":"2013-06-02T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:22:24","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-sonya-sheats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/02\/bookbinder-of-the-month-sonya-sheats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Sonya Sheats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Brandon Constant.<\/p><\/div>\n

Paperrad was an artist collective based in Boston and comprised of Jacob Ciocci, Jessica Ciocci, and Ben Jones (all fantastic friends of Sonya Sheats<\/a>). Their multimedia projects use \u201clo-fi\u201d visual aesthetics, bold fluorescent colors, and images from popular culture.<\/p>\n

In 2006, Jacob visited Sonya in France. Paperrad\u2019s first book, BJ and Da Dogs<\/em>, had just been published and he brought her a couple copies. Sonya had just finished her first apprenticeship with Edgard Claes and was about to return to Belgium to continue her studies. Jacob and Sonya thought it would be a good idea to bind Paperrad\u2019s book, so he designed the cover while in France, and Sonya brought it with her to Belgium.<\/p>\n

This edition had been previously bound after publication, so Sonya dismantled the text block. To hide some wear left on the outer folds of the signatures, Sonya glued strips of fluorescent papers onto the folds. The structure for the binding is referred to as \u201c\u00c0 Creneaux\u201d with an open spine in polycarbonate assembled in sections and PVC. The signatures were sewn with monofilament and exposed along the spine.<\/p>\n

A comment from Sonya:<\/strong>
It will forever be a running joke between Edgard and me because he was quite shocked and unsettled by the colors in the Paperrad design. I hung up prints, templates, and color samples around my workspace, and Edgard joked that he had a hard time looking in my direction during that time. It took me about 22 hours to make 7 templates for the color blocks and to airbrush the design [with automotive paint].\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The interior of the boards were also airbrushed, one in lime and the other in a soft blue.<\/p>\n

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Bound in 2005 for Paperrad, BJ and Da Dogs is this full embossed leather binding with colored foil tooling for the title. Below is another edition bound as an open joint binding with buffalo skin.<\/p>\n

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Paperrad was an artist collective based in Boston and comprised of Jacob Ciocci, Jessica Ciocci, and Ben Jones (all fantastic friends of Sonya Sheats). Their multimedia projects use \u201clo-fi\u201d visual aesthetics, bold fluorescent colors, and images from popular culture. In 2006, Jacob visited Sonya in France. Paperrad\u2019s first book, BJ and Da Dogs, had just […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,68,13],"tags":[1021,1020,856,1867,1009,1018,1019,1017,1007],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-a-creneaux","tag-ben-jones","tag-bookbinder-of-the-month","tag-bookbinding","tag-edgard-claes","tag-jacob-ciocci","tag-jessica-ciocci","tag-paperrad","tag-sonya-sheats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1vl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6075,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/30\/bookbinder-of-the-month-sonya-sheats-bonus\/","url_meta":{"origin":5787,"position":0},"title":"Bonus \/\/ Bookbinder of the Month: Sonya Sheats","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"June 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Les M\u00e9moires de L'Oiseau Mendelssohn\u00a0by Monique Lepeuve was bound by Sonya Sheats in 2005 and was her first polycarbonate binding made during her first apprenticeship with Edgard Claes in Belguim.\u00a0It tells the story of a bird by the name of Mendelssohn, who introduces the reader to the incredible characters in\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\/2013\/06\/oiseaumendelssohn3-sonyasheats.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/oiseaumendelssohn3-sonyasheats.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/oiseaumendelssohn3-sonyasheats.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/oiseaumendelssohn3-sonyasheats.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5796,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/09\/bookbinder-of-the-month-sonya-sheats-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5787,"position":1},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Sonya Sheats","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"June 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Bien Aim\u00e9 Raymond\u00a0by Max Jacob with illustrations by Jean-Marie Queneau was bound by Sonya Sheats in 2007. 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