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Erin Fletcher : Fine Binding & Edition Binding
Front cover of Three Nyatitis And Talek binding on a white table. Close-up of front cover of Three Nyatitis And Talek binding on a white table. Edge of Three Nyatitis And Talek binding on a white table. Interior of Three Nyatitis And Talek binding on a white table.
Three Nyatitis & Talek
Three Nyatitis composed by Evan Ziporyn
Talek composed by Christine Southworth

Private Collection, US

Bound as a single signature binding. Covered in brown goatskin. Sewn on a stub of handmade Katie MacGregor paper. Leather wrapped endbands in Amandine buffalo skin. Paste paper flyleaves by Deena Schnitman and Katie MacGregor handmade paper endpapers. Design blind tooled with a line palette. Title hand tooled in Centaur with gold leaf.

Housed in a 4-flap enclosure.

Completed in 2013



Artist Statement
The nyatiti is an 8-stringed plucked lyre native to Kenya and was inspiration for the composer who wrote Three Nyatitis. To create a simple design, eight blind tooled lines were tooled in a manner that represents the layout of the strings on the nyatiti.

Read about the binding process of this book on my blog.