Lang Ingalls
Crested Butte, Colorado

Lang Ingalls graduated from the American Academy of Bookbinding in 2007, where she studied under Tini Miura and Monique Lallier. Since then she has studied with others - notably Eleanore Ramsey, Don Glaister, Edwin Heim and Ana Ruiz-Larrea - to further hone her skills. She presently works out of her atelier in Crested Butte, making fine bindings year round. Her work is shown in the US and abroad regularly.

Website: langingalls.com

Harriet Bart, The Poetry of Chance Encounters, 2003

The Poetry of Chance Encounters is bound in the French technique in butter-colored goat. The cover design utilizes the incision technique, with thin lines of leather pulled and painted to depict the shapes. Other design elements include hand-sewn silk endbands, leather hinges, and matching butter-colored suede pastedowns and flyleaves. "Harriet Bart's combination on each page of a discovered 'ancient object' - some described as vessels - carefully composed over found 'early signs of writing' completely captured my imagination. The objects themselves provided inspiration for the chosen shapes; their gold color suggested an avenue for the tooled band across the waist of the book cover. The combination became an homage to Bart's seek-and-find in the interior."
Leather over boards.
6.5 x 9 x .5 inches; 16 x 23 x 1.5 centimeters. Created 2015.