Coleen Curry is a contemporary design bookbinder with the ability to craft technically evocative bindings that provide a rich visual, sensual, and tactile experience. Coleen received her Diploma in Fine Binding from the American Academy of Book-binding in Telluride, Colorado. She is past President of the Hand Bookbinders of California and a Board member of the San Francisco Center for the Book. Coleen exhibits internationally and has won numerous awards for her exceptional work. Both in collaboration with the Press, and at the request of her collectors, Coleen has designed a number of design bindings of Nawakum Press titles. We celebrate her talents and artistic genius here.

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LOOM

Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design

Alan Loney / Richard Wagener

Nawakum Press, Mixoydian Editions Santa Rosa 2014 Signed AP5
275 x 170 x 13 mm

Hand dyed calf leather flexible binding with fabric onlays and tooled. Embossed suede doublures. Text sewn ‘montage sur onglets’ (on guards). Leather endbands and natural edges.

Bound 2021 / Private Collection

THE SEA FOGS

Robert Louis Stevenson / Gary Alphonso

Nawakum Press, Santa Rosa, 2016 Signed No. 27
275 x 170 x 13 mm

Full calfskin laced on boards binding with edge-to-edge doublures of same. Leather is hand dyed blue with blue, silver, and brown resist dyes and graphite. Two shades of silver foil applied in multiple layers, sanded and burnished. Sunago technique to apply palladium leaf on top edge.

Bound 2020 / Private Collection

OUTSIDE

Barry Lopez / Barry Moser

Nawakum Press, Santa Rosa 2013 Signed AP1
340 mm x 600 mm

Bound in hand dyed and embossed kangaroo leather with inlays of copper, snake and calf skins; onlays of snake and calf skins. Blind tooled. Edge-to-edge stone veneer doublures with matching stone veneer fly leaves. Hand embroidered silk end bands. Title tooled in blind.

Bound 2016 / Private Collection

LOOM

Alan Loney / Richard Wagener

Nawakum Press, Mixoydian Editions Santa Rosa 2014 Signed AP4
216mm x 360mm x 35mm

Black goat skin binding with edge-to-edge distressed leather doublures. Inlays and mosaics of manipulated and decorated leather to complement the prints within then text.

Bound 2015 / Private Collection

ENCHEIRISEN NATURAE

Paul Muldoon / Barry Moser

Nawakum Press, Santa Rosa, 2014 Signed AP1
370mm x 470mm x 35 mm

Bound in black goatskin with onlays of slate stone leaf, wasp’s nest and leather splits. Inlays of pewter and embossed and sanded leather. Collaged leather splits and pewter inlay as center piece. Gold leaf tooled. Slate stone leaf edge-to-edge doublures and suede flyleaves.

Bound 2015 / Private Collection

TRADING EIGHTS, THE FACES OF JAZZ

Ted Gioa & Dana Gioa / James Todd Jr.

Mixolydian Editions and Nawakum Press / Santa Rosa 2016
380 mm x 163 mm

Full black goatskin binding with boards laced-on. Edge-to-edge black goat-skin doublures. Custom blue and grey paste paper flyleaves. Black and white
silk endbands. Inlays of black grained leather, embossed and top-pared black calf, perforated sheepskin. White box calf and paper onlays. Title tooled with grey foil.

Bound 2016 / Private Collection