The 5th DeGolyer Competition

Title

The 5th DeGolyer Competition

Subject

bookbinding competition

Description

A triennial competition to bind a book chosen by Bridwell Library.

Creator

Bridwell Library

Publisher

Bridwell Library, SMU Libraries and Perkins School of Theology, SMU

Date

Originally exhibited June 5–July 24, 2009

Rights

This work in this collection is protected by copyright law. No commercial reproduction or distribution is permitted. This file may be used for educational uses only, provided it is not altered in any way, and the copyright line is cited. (Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU). No other use is permitted.

Collection Items

Spitler
Various decorative techniques on tan Hewit's goatskin leather including traditional onlay leather with gold and blind tooling, painted and stenciled acrylic, and colored cut-foil technique. Geological strata of back-pared leather symbolizes layers of…

Spitler example
Pastepaper décor on Arches text paper with text printed on a HP 1500 inkjet printer. Full leather binding in green Harmatan goatskin. Decorated with leather onlay work, gold tooling, back-pared onlays applied prior to covering, cut foil stamping…

Lawrence
Beige goatskin with onlays of yellow, terracotta, dark brown, and chocolate brown goatskin; inlay of medium blue goatskin. Blind and gold tooling; top edge gilt; hand embroidered headbands; flyleaves and doublures of silk. Full beige goatskin chemise…

Lawrence example
Crimson goatskin worked in bas-relief and blind tooled; gold tooled with various sizes of dots, stars, and bells; title gold tooled on spine. Hand embroidered silk headbands; top edge graphite; marbled paper by Catherine Levine. A Christmas ghost…

Hanmer
French technique fine binding with sewn-on flattened cords laced into boards covered in full goatskin using Paul Delrue's lacunose technique. Goatskin onlay and inlaid lines. Leather joints, suede flyleaves, earth tone textured machine-made Japanese…

Hanmer example
Sewn on flattened cords laced into boards covered in goatskin using Paul Delrue's lacunose technique. Goatskin onlay and inlaid lines. Additional lines incised freehand with "Ascona tool." Leather joints, suede flyleaves, green Takeo paper doublures.…

Adelman
A French style binding with laced-on boards. The top edge is graphite with hand sewn silk endbands, covered in "coke" gray buffalo leather with onlays of emery paper and aluminum screen. The book would be housed in a matching leather clamshell box.…

Adelman example
A French style binding with laced-on boards. The top edge is graphite with red silk hand sewn endbands. The book is covered in black goatskin with black emery paper and black morocco onlays, enclosed in a traditional chemise and slipcase. The shape…

Barber
Teal blue French Chagreen leather with onlays of green and tan leather representing the landscape. Additional strip onlays in black represent the river and a figure with canoe paddle and fishing gear departing the area. The doublure will extend edge…

Barber example
Bound in full Harmatan burgundy leather with edge to edge leather doublures. Hand sewn endbands complement the letterpress flyleaf provided by the printer. Two illustrations from the book were simplified, hand tooled on the top and bottom boards, and…

Bruce
A split board binding decorated with a pallet of colors in blues and greens. The significance of the river is abstracted on the cover in onlays of various blue and green colors to emphasize the importance of this pathway in this memorable journey.

Bruce example
A leather binding of royal blue goatskin with yellow, black, and flesh colored onlays. The face and hands of the woman were custom designed by the binder and cast in sterling silver.

Elder
Sewn silk headbands, edge decoration of gold over a cedar-colored dark green, and endpapers created by Dallas marbler Catherine Levine. A silhouette of a dachshund, carved, filled, and stained on the lower corner of the front cover, acknowledges the…

Elder example
Tight-back binding with text sewn onto linen tapes and laced-on boards of quilted book-matched maple. Spine and hinges in goatskin with an inset of Bisbee turquoise from Arizona delineating the front edge of the quarter binding; endpapers by…

Fox
The Brazos River flows south-southeast as shown in the design. The head of the text will be colored and then gilded with various colors of gold and palladium to shimmer as light on water. Full goatskin with leather onlays and several colors of gold…

Fox example
This miniature binding has been sewn on tapes, laced in, with silk endbands. The gilding has been done by Myles at Marchetti Brothers. The outer and inner boards are covered in full goatskin with leather onlays and gold, palladium, and colored foil…

Geigel
Full beige leather binding in the French tradition with one window cut and opened on each board framing a photograph taken by the binder representing the Brazos. The inside cover will be finished in edge to edge doublures. The top edge will be…

Geigel example
Full blue leather binding in the French tradition with the design of an ancient Greek ship tooled in blind across top and bottom boards with gilded star constellations on top and bottom boards. Edge to edge doublures blind tooled. Top edge in…

Ingalls
Binding structure in the French technique, with deep-blue goatskin with 'Birdsong' lines and titling hand tooled in 23 karat gold. Silk thread endbands, natural top edge, endsheets of blue pastepaper with sparkles of gold. "Sunken suede" doublures.…

Ingalls example
Full red chagrin leather binding in the French technique. Hand sewn silk endbands, handcolored and "crackled" gold top edge, and gold pastepaper endpapers. Title and tooling in 23 karat gold. The volume housed in a matching chemise, slipcase, and…

Jackson
Quarter leather bound in the skin of a western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) to be caught, killed, and tanned by the binder in Jack County, not far from the banks of the Brazos River. Textblock sewn on five frayed linen cords, painted…

Jackson example
Hollow-back binding sewn on three frayed linen cords, quarter leather bound in the skin of a copperhead snake shot and tanned by the binder in August 2007. Top edge gilt, leather headbands, and Lokta Momi paper covered boards and endsheets.

Kamph
Fall blue-green oasis goatskin, brown and rust onlays, Italian Restauro endpapers. Onlays in blind and gold tooled to represent permanence (blind) and transience (gold). Reflections on what will be gold wavy lines. Colors to be used symbolically:…

Kamph example
Purple oasis goatskin, red onlay cut-out "Ariel" figure taken from illustration in the book, green onlay gold-tooled "barometer" indicating stormy weather, recessed only corners with gold-tooled suns.

Kibby
Deep brown goatskin representing land, edged with lacunose and biscuit onlays. Thin blue inlaid lines dissecting the deep brown cover. A river shaped inset panel, covered in parchment with blue goatskin onlays depicting familiar Texas icons. Leather…
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