{"id":6204,"date":"2013-07-15T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:21:37","slug":"book-artist-of-the-month-ellen-knudson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/book-artist-of-the-month-ellen-knudson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Artist of the Month: Ellen Knudson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the course of graduate school,\u00a0Ellen Knudson<\/a>, would travel the road between Starkville, Mississippi and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.\u00a0Self-Dual (How to Walk a 30,000 Mile Tightrope)<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is a collection of visual and textual vignettes in reflection of those trips; little pieces of the scenery and her thoughts during those drives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The paper used in the book is 100% cotton rag, handmade from Ellen’s family’s clothing. The six large illustrations are linoleum reduction prints, the other illustrations are line art drawings printed from photopolymer plates. The type is handset in multiple sizes of Lutetia metal type, cast by Harold Berliner. The book is bound as a built-in groove case in the dos-a-dos style binding with two illustrated fold-outs. This book was bound in an edition of 50.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The deluxe edition is a handmade portfolio that houses the six large linoleum prints. This edition was produced in a quantity of 15. Self-Dual\u00a0<\/em>was made during 2005-06.<\/p>\n

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Over the course of graduate school,\u00a0Ellen Knudson, would travel the road between Starkville, Mississippi and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.\u00a0Self-Dual (How to Walk a 30,000 Mile Tightrope)\u00a0is a collection of visual and textual vignettes in reflection of those trips; little pieces of the scenery and her thoughts during those drives.\u00a0 The paper used in the book is 100% […]<\/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":[677,681],"tags":[1150,680,572,1100,1101,97,1151,1149],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-artist-of-the-month","category-feature-artist-book-of-the-week","tag-000-mile-tightrope","tag-artist-book","tag-book-arts","tag-crooked-letter-press","tag-ellen-knudson","tag-letterpress","tag-printing","tag-self-dual-how-to-walk-a-30"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1C4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6167,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/08\/book-artist-of-the-month-ellen-knudson\/","url_meta":{"origin":6204,"position":0},"title":"Book Artist of the Month: Ellen Knudson","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"July 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2004, Ellen Knudson printed and bound\u00a0How to Love Someone Forever\u00a0in an edition of 50 books and 50 broadsides. 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