TECHNIQUE
Full goatskin leather. Hand dyed and decorated with foil tooling and back pared onlays. Edges decorated with graphite and pigment. Hand sewn double endbands. Dyed paper edge-to-edge doublures and suede flyleaves.
DESIGN
It can be a bit of a challenge binding a Booker book when it reads like a movie; each paragraph offering up rich and vivid scenes. I decided to choose the elements which were the strongest for me: Neanderthal cave drawings, the mega-basins of water, corn, magnesium crystals, the rows of poplar trees, the big and little dippers and the North Star – Polaris.
I wanted the overall feeling to be reminiscent of cave drawings with the inclusion of the other ingredients, depicted in a naïve and semi-graphic way. In addition, the majority of this story is set in France, so I included the French flag within the head end-band.
