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Erin Fletcher : Fine Binding & Edition Binding
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A Little More Like Water – by Jacqueline Scott
Printed by Puritan Press, 2020

Private Collection, US

French-style fine binding with laced-in boards. Bound in kangaroo skin hand-dyed by Coleen Curry. Title and waves hand embroidered with cotton floss. Leather wrapped endbands in pale pink calfskin and stitched with bands of dark peach cotton floss. Edge-to-edge doublures using handmade paper in light moss with overlapping buffalo skin hinge in prussian blue. Dark moss handmade paper fly leaves with peach and translucent grey handmade paper endpapers.

Binding is housed in a clamshell box covered in seafoam green buffalo skin and sided up with light yellow handmade paper. Trays covered in peach and dark moss handmade paper and lined in iceberg grey Novasuede.

31cm x 20cm x 2cm - Completed in 2024



Artist Statement
The vast range of colors produced during twilight at the beach are interspersed throughout the text and within the collection produced by Jackie. To bring these colors to the cover, I asked the talented Coleen Curry to work her magic with leather dye. At the head of the binding, a brilliant yellow merges into orange and then pink before ending with mossy blues.

One windy summer day, Jackie and I spent a brief afternoon at the beach. As we walked out on the sand bar, we were mesmerized by the waves crashing over our feet. I wanted to capture this moment of time we spent together in the texture of embroidery on leather. The title of the book is stitched in the waves and styled in Jackie’s hand.