TECHNIQUE
This is a full leather binding – tape and linen board attachment. The fair goat has been hand dyed using various leather dyes. Foil tooling to the front and back boards with patterned wire impressions. The end-bands have been hand sewn. Graphite and pigment edges head and tail with a deckled fore-edge. The edge-to-edge doublures are painted as well as the decorative folds on the verso of the petrol blue suede flyleaves.
DESIGN
I have been experimenting with various dyeing techniques over the last few months for research and I created this dyed panel of goat skin. The moment I saw the result I knew it had to be for this book. The Rorschach-like pattern conjures up twisted faces within the stormy blue swirls – “A storm created by magic to exact revenge”.
