{"id":389,"date":"2019-04-01T12:32:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=389"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:32:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:32:21","slug":"fold-to-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Fold to Fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Historical Patterned Papers\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/owcObHv-Z5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a project has taken many years not just by myself but many makers and collectors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My daughter Lucy suggested the title as it was short enough to fit in the plain green space and it relates to the folding of the paper and how rock folds over geological time.\u00a0The idea was to save the many unique pattern papers most often used in book production to illustrate geological time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These papers are usually classified by date, the places in which they were made or by the makers who either designed or marbled them.\u00a0The pattern papers are folded and joined with various colours of cloth which are exposed at the spine. This is to give the impression of the many colours which make up soil and rock.\u00a0The geological time periods are separated with handmade paper \u00a0and embossed with gold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Geology defines our world and the soil which all life is dependent.\u00a0Devon is rich in geological sites including the Jurassic Coast.\u00a0The local red sandstone gives its named to the Devonian period.\u00a0The granite from Dartmoor washed down to form the Bovey Basin, home to rich deposits of clay.\u00a0The final pieces are plastic which in the current Anthropocene period humans are leaving in the fossil record.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It has helped many people to understand the length of geological time and human influence upon it.\u00a0My thanks to the geologists who have given their time to look at how the papers were arranged to see if any were wildly out of context.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The cover leather is batik dyed\u00a0 from the manufacturer Harmatan. The box is also Harmatan suede.\u00a0The book is held together with album rivets and the cover is supported on either side by an engraved bar, made locally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The video was shot by Selby Thomas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Mary Bartlett, Dartington Hall, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a project has taken many years not just by myself but many makers and collectors. My daughter Lucy suggested the title as it was short enough to fit in the plain green space and it relates to the folding of the paper and how rock folds over geological time.\u00a0The idea was to save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmatan.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}