Anna Celander/Kristina Enhörning Sweden
Title: 55*40'38.2''N 13*24'22.5''E
Style: This work was created specifically for the exhibition Nordic Nature, and the physical place where we began the work on our artist book has exactly these coordinates. In fact, we started physically in nature, in a beech forest, hoping to be able to portray it in the shape of a book.
How to convey the bodily experience of being in nature with a book and its binding?
Structures; sharp, soft, fog, rain...
To run your hand over a beech trunk...
See the future through a twig hole in a piece of bark…
The book wants to encourage you to experience; to see, hear, and feel the magic of Nordic Nature. The materials used for this artist book are exclusively Scanian, except for the leather on the back, which is reindeer skin from Lapland, at the other end of Sweden.
The technique is called the Dos rapporté binding (Ben Elbel).
Size: 17x17x2
Anna Jönsson Sweden
Title: Utsikt från en grästuva, Harry Martinson / Views from a tuft of grass
Style: Cloth binding with Crêpe de Chine silk. The name on the cover is the author Harry Martinson's own signature written in gold foil.
Size:
Contact information: Instagram: a.jonsson_bookbinding
Anna-Karin Oleschak Sweden
Sadly the 3D scanning of this exhibition piece was not successful.
Title: Nordic nature - Winter rest / Oleschak & Herring
Style: Artist book.
Case binding with clad in silk. Book block in Zerkall with deckle edge and a cut top edge.
Contains a folded picture of a painting made by the artist Maria Herring, unfolded it and the book can be used as a bookstand for the picture.
Flyleaves in different colours to match Herring's art.
The owner of this book can write own poems, thoughts and whatever owner wants or unfold the picture and just dream away.
Size: 14,2/27,3/1,2 cm
Contact information: www.oleschak.se @brunnsbackensbokbinderi
Annika Baudry France
Sadly the 3D scanning of this exhibition piece was not successful.
Title: Donne-moi une cigarette... / Gudrun Eva Minervudottir
Style: Variation of sewn board binding in printed parchment, without glue.
Size: 162 x 256 x 14 mm
ARKIR BÓKVERKAFÉLAG / ARKIR BOOK ARTS GROUP Iceland
Sadly the 3D scanning of this exhibition piece was not successful.
Title: VÖTN / WATERS
ARKIR – artists: Anna Snædís Sigmarsdóttir, Arnþrúður Ösp Karlsdóttir, Áslaug Jónsdóttir, Kristín Guðbrandsdóttir,
Kristín Þóra Guðbjartsdóttir, Sigurborg Stefánsdóttir, Svanborg Matthíasdóttir.
Style: Hardcover, coptic stitch binding. Mixed media, upcycled maps, prints, collage, painting, paper cutting and paper piercing.
Size: 21 x 32,5 x 2,7 cm
Contact information: www.arkir.art arkirnar@gmail.com
Arri Mäkeläinen Finland
Title: Samoilija / Wanderer / Arri Mäkeläinen, Samoilija / Wanderer
Style: Coptic binding variation
Size: 11cm / 15 cm / 3 cm
Contact information: arrimakelainen.weebly.com arri.makelainen@gmail.com instagram: arrimakelainen
Åsa Danielsson Sweden
Title: Dagbok från en sjö / Gunnar Brusewitz
Style: Full leather binding in two colors of goatskin. Leather headbands. Blue endpapers. Title in gold. Blind tooling on covers. The covers in light blue represents the lake with blind tooled bulrush and reeds.
Size: 25.331.5 x 2.5
Contact information: Salamandersbokbinderi@gmail.com
Claudia Wegmann Finland
Title: JÄÄMEREN LAULU (2024) / Ingeborg Arvola
Style: The story: "Jäämeren laulu" tells the story of a Finnish woman in the 18th century. She sets off on a long journey to the coast of northern Norway. She hopes to find a better future there. Her destination is Bugøynes, where the sea is said to foam with cod.
The design: The first thing I think of when I think of the North Norwegian coast is fish. I can smell the fish, and I can see the fish on drying racks in front of my eyes.
My book: The binding is a Broken back Bradel binding.
The covers of my book are covered with a laminate of thick, coloured Mingeishi paper. The fish and the headbands are made of sanded leather-paper collages. The back is covered in leather and the marbeled endpapers show the foaming sea.
Size: 153 x 221 x 35mm
Contact information: Kirjansitomo Clabbok, Kuopio Finland
Ditte Højgaard Nielsen Denmark
Title: Landskabskunst i Danmark / Frode Birk Nielsen
Style: Rubow-binding in contemporary style with Oasis goadskin and printede japanese paper. Handsewn headband in silk
Size: 27,5 x 25 x 2,5 cm
Contact information: dihn@kb.dk
Einar Sveinn Ragnarsson Iceland
Title: Modern Bookbinding
Style: Bound in the style of Jean de Gonet. Dyed thread, sewn on Japanese paper covered in brown goat leather, leather headbands, spine covered with green salmon (fish leather).
Contact information: Tel: 003548933426 email: einarsv78@gmail.com
Eva Eriksson Sweden
Title: Bokbindare och bokbinderier i Lund under 1900-talet
Style: Sewn on cotton tape with green linnen tread. Green end papers. My own hand printed paper as cover. Leather headbands. Titel in gold on leather.
Size: 155x213x18mm
Frida Bäfverfeldt Sweden
Sadly the 3D scanning of this exhibition piece was not successful.
Title: Pippi Långstrump går ombord / Astrid Lindgren
Style: Limp paper binding, inspired by found things in the Swedish nature.
Cover paper made from Nettles from my backyard, and flax.
Sewn on linen threads that were then woven into bands on a rigid heddle loom. Treads are dyed with cones and bark from an elder tree that had fallen over during a storm, and iron from the dump.
Cover lining paper is decorated with pigment from ink cap mushroom that grew on that lawn next to the river.
And the etiquette is from a piece of birch bark found on the ground.
Size: 10.5/15.5/1.8
Georg Pram Ekelund Norway
Title: En Jægers Erindringer / Bernhard Herre
Style: Parchment over boards, split board attachment, hollow back. Sewn endbands, stained and sprinkled edges, suede flyleaves, parchment doublures.
The illustration on the cover has been printed using pigment inks, the design was inspired by Torleif Ruds illustrations in the book. The title has been copied from the title page.
A piece of the board under the moon on the cover has been removed, making the moon light up if the inside of the board is illuminated.
Size: 155x198x25mm
Gert Hansen Denmark
Title: Kon-Tiki ekspeditionen / Thor Heyerdahl
Style: Universitetsbind
Size: 18 x 27 x 2 cm
Contact information: https://www.instagram.com/booksandgraphics/
Gro Rebnord Norway
Sadly the 3D scanning of this exhibition piece was not successful.
Title: Vinter-rendezvous / Hans Børli (Dikt fra 1978)
Style: Method: Accordinbook with covers
Materials; External/covers: Cardboard ca 2mm and cardboard 600gm2, white granitol
Gilding: golden metal leaf that consists of 85% copper and 15% zinc
Endpapers: Canson Colorline Paper 150g
Internal: Hahnemühle Mixed Media Bamboo Paper 265g
Gildinglines: fillet on foil
Size: W: 13,1/ H: 16,7/ T: ca 2cm
Guðlaug Friðriksdóttir Iceland
Title: Hugleiðingar Vilborgar
Style: Handmade paper painted with watercolor / Red foil tooling. Illustration by Kristín Þorkelsdóttir
Size: 22,2cm x 23,3cm x 1.5cm
Contact information: boklist.is email: boklist@simnet.is
Guðlaug Friðriksdóttir Iceland
Title: Nína Tryggvadóttir
Style: Pappírs band. Pappír málaður af Jakob Lund. Grafitsnið að ofan. Paper binding. Cover is painted by Jakob Lund. Graphite on top edge.
Size: 24,2cm x 22,6cm x 1,3cm
Contact information: boklist.is email: boklist@simnet.is
Hannah Morrissey Sweden
Title: Mannen som ordnade naturen / Gunnar Broberg
Style: Case binding with leather spine. Boards covered with linen cloth from Jobs Handtryck with blueberry and wild strawberry motifs.
Paste paper flyleaves made by the binder.
Hanne Mahler Denmark
Title: Nytteplanter i farver / Else Hvass
Style: Full binding in hand-dyed linen with relief and fabric print that relates to the book's content.
Size: 12,5 x 18,4 x 2 cm
Contact information: Nølev Bygade 8, 8300 Odder, Danmark
Instagram : hannemahler1
Hildur Jónsdóttir Iceland
Title: Salmon Rivers
Style: Full leather casebinding / Salmon leather. Leather headbands. Decorated top edge.
Size: 27,2cm x 25,5cm x 2,5cm
Hjörleifur Hjörtþórsson Iceland
Title: Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770 - 1844
Style: Casebinding. Covered with marbled canvas. Leather onlay with foil tooling. Decorated edges.
Size: 20,5cm x 27cm x 1,8cm
Hrefna Ársælsdóttir Iceland
Title: Fagra Veröld
Style: Salmon leather on spine. Covers are Japan paper glued on top of green Butten paper. Sanded edges. Leather headbands.
Size: 20cm x 21cm x 2,1cm
Idha Holmlund Sweden
Title: Att alltid göra och tänka det olika - Siri Derkert i 1900-tale / Red. Mats Rohdin och Annika Öhrner
Style: Tightback binding sewn on raised cords with bare boards and back covered with a kitchen towel. Embroidered title.
Decoration on front board in ink, variation on detail from a self portrait by Siri Derkert.
Size: ca 17/21/3 cm
Contact information: idha.holmlund@gmail.com @konservator_idhaholmlund (instagram)
Ingeir Djuvik Norway
Title: Theodor Kittelsen. Tegninger og akvareller (Drawings and Watercolours) / Leif Østby
Style: Full Harmatan leather binding, with onlays, acrylics and inks. Leather hinges, textile endleaves and doublure, acylic edges, hand sewn silk endbands. Box in soft yellow with inlay and blindtooling, lined with purple suede. Design and colors inspired from the illustrations. Theodor Kittelsen is for many THE Norwegian artist, depicting the supernatural beings in Norwegian tradition, together with his many illustrations and paintings of Norwegian nature at all seasons and moods
Size: 220x275x22
Contact information: dingeir@hotmail.com
Inger Mønster Marker Denmark
Title: Havørn / Jens Gregersen
Style: Half- bound leahter binding with open joint and with leather on the bottom part of the book .Cover is paintet cloth at the top. Topedge in paintet blue, the other edges are uncutet. Head bands i red leather. Titel at the upper board. The box covered i shirting and the inner part have beige suede for the book
Size: H:25,5 W: 21,00 T: 2,20
Contact information: Mail: ingerm4@gmail.com
Joel Nilsson Sweden
Title: Höst / Selma Lagerlöf
Style: Stylized autumn (höst = autumn) forest with doublures mirroring the outside. Covered in goat leather inlaid with bog oak veneer. Hand sewn end bands. Stained and waxed edges. Sunn hemp end papers. Jacket in cloth lined sunn hemp paper.
Size: 13/19.5/2.5
Contact information: https://www.instagram.com/jnbookbinding/