Limp vellum binding with paper covered solander box
Private collection
Every year Dutch literature is celebrated during the Book Week. The 2023 Book Week Gift is the beautiful novella “De eerlijke vinder” by Lize Spit.
Invited by the Stichting Handboekbinden to participate in their annual binding challenge I bound this book using a simple but beautiful limp vellum binding.
The signatures are sewn onto a single leather thong and onto flax cord headbands. The textblock is attached to the vellum wrapper with vellum strings using a cross-stitch from the first to the last signature. The attachments are strengthened with pieces of vellum and leather. The turn-ins of the vellum are closed with pieces of vellum string. The wrapper is fastened at the fore-edge with a small leather monkey fist and leather loop. The title is embossed on the front of the wrapper in blue foil. The book sits in a solander box covered in blue lokta paper and handprinted paper by Lenneke Saraber. The flippo with Elmer as Vincent van Gogh is embedded on the inside of the lid. This is a tribute to Jimmy, the main character of the book, a boy who collects flippo’s, and has never seen this flippo before. A strip of vellum with the booktitle in blue foil is embedded on the front of the box.
