{"id":9291,"date":"2015-03-15T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:02:34","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-tracey-rowledge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/15\/bookbinder-of-the-month-tracey-rowledge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Tracey Rowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AuggieWrensChristmasStory1997-TraceyRowledge\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is one of my favorite bindings from Tracey Rowledge<\/a>; the tooling is brilliantly executed and in such a way that is perplexing. Which is precisely why it was included in the interview. Tracey bound this edition of Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story<\/em><\/a> by Paul Auster in 1997 using native red goatskin.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really intrigued by the design for the binding of Auggie Wren\u2019s Christmas Story<\/em> that you created in 1997. I would love to hear about the steps involved in executing the design; from the detailed image of this book, the tooling appears staggered, as if the depth of the impressions varied. Were you using a series of hand-made tools to create the overall design and this effect?
\n<\/strong>This was a pivotal binding for me, as this image dictated that I alter my gold tooling technique from using albumen glaire and laying the gold on the book, to using BS Glaire and picking the gold up on the tool (Ivor\u2019s method). The tooling was done using a series of pallets and irregular shape brass finishing tools (which I\u2019d made), that overlapped in order to fill various shapes in the image. This was the first time I\u2019d used Caplain<\/em> leaf (18 carat), it\u2019s a difficult leaf to work with as it\u2019s quite brittle. It remains a favourite leaf to use as it doesn\u2019t tarnish and has a wonderful melancholic tone.<\/p>\n

This book took about 100 hours to gold tool.<\/p>\n

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This is one of my favorite bindings from Tracey Rowledge; the tooling is brilliantly executed and in such a way that is perplexing. Which is precisely why it was included in the interview. Tracey bound this edition of Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story by Paul Auster in 1997 using native red goatskin. I\u2019m really intrigued by […]<\/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":[1724,1867,223,75,1720],"class_list":["post-9291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-auggie-wrens-christmas-story","tag-bookbinding","tag-gold-tooling","tag-leather","tag-tracey-rowledge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-2pR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9256,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/08\/bookbinder-of-the-month-tracey-rowledge\/","url_meta":{"origin":9291,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Tracey Rowledge","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"March 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The two bindings featured in this post are earlier pieces\u00a0from Tracey Rowledge, but I think they represent her core interests in melding simple marks into complex gold tooled designs.\u00a0The binding above is an edition\u00a0of A Satyr Against Mankind by The Earl of Rochester, which was bound in a chestnut brown\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\/2015\/03\/Ulysses-TraceyRowledge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ulysses-TraceyRowledge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ulysses-TraceyRowledge.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9325,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/26\/bonus-bookbinder-of-the-month-tracey-rowledge\/","url_meta":{"origin":9291,"position":1},"title":"Bonus \/\/ Bookbinder of the Month: Tracey Rowledge","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"March 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"To continue with the same theme from the prior post, I wanted to discuss another unique binding from Tracey Rowledge's portfolio. 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