Megillat Esther
(Book of Esther)
Custom Project
The Brief
The client had commissioned an artist to illustrate the Book of Esther but had not yet given consideration as to how he would like the illustrations to be displayed.
We were presented with original artwork on parchment panels mounted on wood, painted in various media including gold, silver and lacquer and asked to create ‘a book’.
As the text was especially meaningful to the client he wanted a binding that was traditional yet at the same time modern and striking.
Size closed: 205 x 336mm – Concertina: 7.4 metres.
Private collection
* All images on this page are taken from the facsimile.
The Project
Production of this facsimile required innovation at every stage.
The scribe’s Hebrew calligraphy was reproduced in solid black silk-screen and raised to exactly reproduce his original hand-written text.
The structure of the artwork lent itself to a traditional concertina-style binding.
Marbled paper matching the manuscript’s colour palette was custom-made in Florence and used to cover the slip-case, commentary volume and facsimile endpapers.
The edition of 64 identical copies was produced in 18 months.
Finest morocco goatskin tanned in Scotland
Marbled paper hand made to match the manuscript’s colour palette.
Hand-made, hand-sewn binding, leather-lipped slipcase
Intricate leather marquetry in yellow blue and red leather with almost 200 tiny dots, 1mm in diameter individully cut and placed.
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