#reliure

Here is my new post about binding a book « à la française ». I explain the steps to perform this difficult kind of binding.

Work in progress :

I covered this book on improvisation. I took scraps of leather from my workshop, cut it and glued it one by one. My picture is created in the process, I just don’t know what it will look like. I like this exercise more and more.

For now it looks like that but I have this feeling that this work is not over.

The text is Triste Tigre, from french author Neige Sinno. It deals with the multiple rapes she endured as a child from her stepfather, and how she grew and lives with it.

It is a text about the limits of litterature, and communication. The author claims clearly that her story cannot be narrated. She’s only drawing a picture that is not reality, and this picture can’t save her from her wounds : she only has to live with it. It is also a text that deals with the vulnerability and the strongness : both are intricated.