{"id":7701,"date":"2014-03-09T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=7701"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:10:32","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-lang-ingalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/09\/bookbinder-of-the-month-lang-ingalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Lang Ingalls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GoTellItOnTheMountain2-LangIngalls\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2011, Lang Ingalls<\/a> won the Best Binding Award from the Chicago Public Library’s One Book Many Interpretations<\/em><\/a> exhibition for her binding of Go Tell It on the Mountain<\/em><\/a> by James Baldwin. It was during the reception for this exhibition that I met Lang. I was drawn to her binding because of the stark contrast between the rich purple leather and bright white onlays.<\/p>\n

Bound in the French technique and covered in purple goatskin. Spanning across the covers and spine are white eel onlays. \u00a0Other design details along with the title are hand tooled blind.<\/p>\n

This is the binding that led to our being introduced during an exhibit in Chicago. I am so attracted to the brilliant contrast between the vivid purple leather and the bright white eel skin onlays. I have little experience using exotic leathers, how does eel skin compare to traditional bookbinding leathers?
\n<\/strong>This eel skin is really really thin, perfect for onlays, and not difficult to execute. I had fun deciding which way the spine parts would go to complement the design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2011, Lang Ingalls won the Best Binding Award from the Chicago Public Library’s One Book Many Interpretations exhibition for her binding of Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin. It was during the reception for this exhibition that I met Lang. I was drawn to her binding because of the stark contrast […]<\/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":[1867,1088,67,1407,1408,1388,75,1409],"class_list":["post-7701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-bookbinding","tag-chicago-public-library","tag-fine-binding","tag-go-tell-it-on-the-mountain","tag-james-baldwin","tag-lang-ingalls","tag-leather","tag-one-book-many-interpretations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-20d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7710,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/16\/bookbinder-of-the-month-lang-ingalls-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":7701,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Lang Ingalls","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"March 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The exhibition showcasing design bindings of the Tryst Press edition of\u00a0Fantasy & Nonsense has been mentioned a few times on the blog. 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