With paper and pen or needle and thread, storytelling has many traditions. Penguin’s award-winning art director Paul Buckley presents Penguin Threads, a series of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions inspired by the aesthetic of handmade crafts.
The series debuts with The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emma by Jane Austen, and Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and features specially commissioned embroidery by Jillian Tamaki. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched with needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a stunning and tactile cover treatment.
With story, style, and texture, the premiere of Penguin Threads is an exciting new chapter in Penguin’s long history of excellence in book design, for true lovers of the book, design, and handcrafted beauty.These are truly gorgeous - deckle-edged, tactile covers, beautiful endpapers and flaps. These will become collectors' items I reckon.
Penguin Threads
RRP $26.00
Available now
Sounds similar to USA Penguins Ink range (the 25th anniversary edition of 'tbp' was published in it.) The beauty & tactility of real books is still a good selling point-
ReplyDeleteI so love this idea. It makes me want to skip around the room in happiness to think that there is a market for these!! Vive le livre!
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