{"id":6161,"date":"2013-07-07T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:21:37","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-coleen-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/07\/bookbinder-of-the-month-coleen-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Coleen Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"grandandsublimescenery-coleencurry\"<\/a><\/p>\n

W.W. Elliot’s Grand and Sublime Scenery<\/em> was bound by Coleen Curry<\/a> in 2008 as a French-style fine binding, sewn on cords with lace-in boards. Covered in black Morocco goatskin with matching edge to edge doublures; cover has an embedded Colorado agate. The head edge is decorated with graphite and title is hand-tooled in palladium.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The book is about the grandeur of the Sierra Nevada, which inspired Coleen to create a structure that would excite awe and showcase the timeless expanse of the landscape. The front cover panel is held in place by magnets and opens three-quarters outward to reveal elements of rock and giant redwood trees. The interior panel is designed with a layer of blind tooled lacunose (sanded leather) and two layers of Japanese paper.<\/p>\n

In 2009, Coleen’s\u00a0binding was selected for\u00a0the Guild of Book Workers<\/a>\u00a0traveling juried exhibition Marking Time<\/a>. The exhibition traveled throughout the country until March 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

W.W. Elliot’s Grand and Sublime Scenery was bound by Coleen Curry in 2008 as a French-style fine binding, sewn on cords with lace-in boards. Covered in black Morocco goatskin with matching edge to edge doublures; cover has an embedded Colorado agate. The head edge is decorated with graphite and title is hand-tooled in palladium.\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[1867,776,1137,1136,190,75,1139,1138,1135],"class_list":["post-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-bookbinding","tag-coleen-curry","tag-french-fine-binding","tag-grand-and-sublime-scenery","tag-guild-of-book-workers","tag-leather","tag-marking-time-exhibition","tag-sierra-nevada","tag-w-w-elliot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1Bn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6199,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/14\/bookbinder-of-the-month-coleen-curry-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":6161,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Coleen Curry","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"July 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"West of the Plains was a juried exhibition put on by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers\u00a0between 2008-09. 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