We invited a British bookbinder Hannah Brown to discuss two of her projects. The first one is a binding with architectural motifs she made several years ago. The other is a board she recently made for a Designer Bookbinders' project.
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00:00 - Beginning
00:30 - Architecture and Bookbinding. "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798."
03:15 - What's a board?
05:01 - From an image to the binding's design, to making a board for Designer Bookbinders
08:24 - The use of embroidery in design bindings
09:44 - What was first for Hannah, embroidery or bookbinding?
10:42 - Embroidery on leather
11:54 - Sewing machine for working with leather
13:47 - Embroidery in the Medieval bookbinding
14:19 - Other bookbinders who do embroidery on their bindings
15:33 - Making wooden boxes for bindings
17:45 - Are there any plans to continue the project in the future?
19:45 - Is it harder to bind a book in an embroidered leather?
23:14 - Using polymer threads
24:24 - Making books that last for centuries
24:58 - Where is the binding now?
