Clifton Meador
Pankisi Prayer Rug , 2014
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11.25 x 13.25
x 2
in
Pankisi Prayer Rug was printed by Clifton Meador at the Center for Book and Paper at Columbia College, Chicago during the Spring of 2014, on a one color Heidelberg press. The color palette of Pankisi Prayer Rug is based on the blues and grays of a winter afternoon in the Caucasus Mountains in the Republic of Georgia. Images are printed in six non-process colors – including a fluorescent red – in an effort to recreate chromolithography as a contemporary practice.
The book is published in an edition of 30 copies by DeMerritt | Pauwels Editions. Each book is hand-sewn with six colors of thread and bound in a Bradel binding with slate antique English buckram. The book is wrapped in a chiaroscuro felt print (produced at Magnolia Editions) and housed in a custom pull-off box. All binding work and design was executed at DeMerritt | Pauwels Editions in Emeryville, CA.
$1,700