{"id":7202,"date":"2013-12-29T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:14:15","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-karen-hanmer-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/29\/bookbinder-of-the-month-karen-hanmer-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Karen Hanmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LaCouleurDuVent-KarenHanmer\"<\/a>La Couleur du Vent<\/em><\/a> is an exhibition featuring 50 bindings interpreting text of the same title. I previously posted about this exhibition in\u00a0Sonya Sheat’s interview<\/a>\u00a0this past June. ARA-Canada<\/a> in partnership with the\u00a0\u00c9cole Estienne<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Paris, organized an international exhibition of bookbinding to be held in both Paris and Canada during 2013 and 2014. I found Karen Hanmer’s<\/a> design for the text to be quite striking and unusual from her other fine bindings. The overall design is simplistic, but the arrangement of fine, short lines creates a beautiful texture against the grain of the vibrant yellow leather.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bound in full goatskin as a traditional French-style fine binding, Karen’s copy of La Couleur du Vent<\/em><\/a> was sewn on flattened cords and the boards are laced-on. The red teardrop is a back-pared onlay, while the other teardrops are tooled using black, gold and red foils. The title is hand tooled using the same colored foils.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How did you come to participate in this exhibition? Are you a member of ARA Canada?
<\/b>Yes, I am a member of ARA Canada, and this is the third time I have exhibited with them. Their exhibitions travel in Canada and sometimes in France, and they still produce printed catalogs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to a family vacation I posted on the Book_Arts-l asking for suggestions of things to see in Montreal. C\u00e9cile C\u00f4t\u00e9 invited us to visit her studio, and I was able to see the text block for this set book exhibit, which was designed, illustrated and printed by an intern under C\u00e9cile\u2019s direction. [From the ARA-Canada website: This is a collection of poems by Gilles Vigneault, illustrated and designed by Nastassja Imiolek under the artistic direction of C\u00e9cile C\u00f4t\u00e9.]\u00a0I unable to find a translation of the text, so my design is based on the illustrations, borrowing often-used colors and the repeated teardrop shape and cross-hatching.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La Couleur du Vent is an exhibition featuring 50 bindings interpreting text of the same title. I previously posted about this exhibition in\u00a0Sonya Sheat’s interview\u00a0this past June. ARA-Canada in partnership with the\u00a0\u00c9cole Estienne\u00a0in\u00a0Paris, organized an international exhibition of bookbinding to be held in both Paris and Canada during 2013 and 2014. 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