Herringbone Bindery
Erin Fletcher : Fine Binding & Edition Binding
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Mishtiku | L'arbre | The Tree – by Josephine Bacon and Terry Randy Awashish
Translation by Jonathan Kaplansky
Published by Faiseurs d'images and printed by Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir, Montreal, 2020

Private Collection, US

French-style fine binding with laced-in boards. Bound in hand-dyed fair calfskin by sponging on pale yellow dye. Handmade paper onlays in pink, salmon and green embellished with cotton embroidery floss and foil tooled with three shades of metallic pinks. Background blind tooled. Leather wrapped endbands in navy blue with bands of salmon and green thread. Text sewn on stubs of matching paper. Pale pink paper doublures embellished with pink and salmon paper onlays and strands of embroidery thread. Matching hand-dyed yellow leather hinges. Green handmade paper flyleaves and endpapers in pink and green handmade papers.

Binding is housed in a clamshell box covered in amaranth goatskin and sided up with pale pink handmade paper. Titles embroidered in dark blue green cotton embroidery floss on leather spine. Blind tooled lines divide titles. Trays covered in green handmade paper and lined with dusty rose Novasuede.

18.2cm x 12.5cm x 1.6cm - Completed in 2024



Artist Statement
I was immediately drawn to Mishtiku by the bold colors and use of thread as a method of printing. After trying to create a new landscape by taking elements from different pages, I decided to instead, re-create one of the spreads through my own methods and materials. I felt that this route would best celebrate the text and I was excited about the challenge of trying to mimic tangle threads through embroidery.