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Kamph
This design refers to the essential relationship between historical bookbinding styles and hands-on restoration techniques. The hands-on concept is represented by semi-pressed inlays of hands and books, worked in multicolored goatskin on the deep…
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Full wine colored Oasis goatskin binding with semi-pressed inlays of multicolored goatskin representing fruit, vegetables, and bottles. Gold tooled highlights and titling. Silk headbands worked in dark red and green thread. Twinrockers endpapers. The…
Kibby
Contemporary full black leather, sewn-on-tape binding with raised thread lines and carved circular insets revealing grey, terra-cotta, and gold leather underneath. Leather joint construction and terra-cotta leather doublures with marbled end sheets…
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Full burgundy leather, sewn-on-tape binding over sculpted boards with embossed purple leather carved insets revealing rust and gold leather underneath. The cover design alludes to the themes of impermanence in Millay's poetry. Hollow back spine and…
Nitzberg
The deep purple goatskin was selected as a traditional regal hue to honor the author while elements of red symbolize leadership. The warm natural tones of the cork is harmonious with the color tones of the printed paper cover of the book, visually…
Nitzberg example
This binding represents an early nineteenth-century bookbinding style: a smooth spine without raised or faux bands, half red leather binding, and the pattern of the marbled paper. There is a flexible hollow tube spine lining: the leather is not…
Reid-Cunningham
This proposed design for The Restoration of Leather Bindings features scarf-joined goatskin and calfskin leathers offset by lines of recessed onlays in white and black leather. The leather will be dyed with aniline dyes. There will be leather hinges…
Reid-Cunningham example
Laid paper pastedowns decorated with 23 karat gold leaf, then stamped in the center with the universal symbol of flammable materials. Sections sewn on meeting guards; guards sewn on raised linen cords; cords laced into the boards. There are front…
Sgantas
This proposed design for Bernard Middleton's text was inspired first by reading his book as a bookmaker/artist and second as one who is constantly exploring and studying different structures, old and new. The idea of illustrating the cover came as…
Sgantas example
The structure that I have chosen to use is the French bookbinder Benjamin Elbel’s dos rapporté. The volume lies open nicely and is a sturdy structure for a reference book that would be used regularly. The design is on Strathmore 80-pound acid-free…
Tapley
The text is to be bound in a variant on Jean De Gonet's exposed sewing and Renaissance slotted spine styles, the head colored with graphite before sewing with red linen thread over grey box calf tapes. The areas between tapes will be covered in black…
Tapley example
The binding is a variant on Jean De Gonet's exposed sewing and Renaissance slotted spine structures. The text block was very lightly trimmed to somewhat even the text, the head was gilt and sprinkled, pastedowns of suminagashi and kozo papers were…
Lawrence
Black goatskin over bas-relief boards, raised onlays of white alum tawed calfskin with single gold tooled line along short side of each triangle; hand embroidered double-core headbands of red and yellow silk; flyleaves and doublures of marbled paper…
Lawrence example
Full beige goatskin over bas-relief boards depicting the Holy Spirit as a descending dove, onlays of goatskin, calfskin, and kangaroo skin in various colors; surface gilding; hand-embroidered headbands of purple and pale yellow silk; flyleaves and…
Ramsey
Ref French Cape morocco with design inspired by French cathedral windows. Covers tooled in blind and gold with black mosaics. Doublures of black and grey engraved decorated papers to compliment the frontispiece. Flyleaves of black suede. Title tooled…
Ramsey example
Full grey Chagrin (French morocco) goatskin with tooled mosaics in six colors of grey leather forming an exotic bouquet of flowers extending around the book. The bouquet includes pencils of yellow morocco, brick colored leather erasers, and silver…
Pullman
Full maroon goatskin with red leather onlays. Traditional panel and gilt spine with individual tools to acknowledge the period when the book was printed, a more contemporary design element with the figure of the young Christ tooled in the front…
Pullman example
Sewn on four linen tapes with sponge painted edges and hand sewn silk endbands. Covered in light brown Hewit goatskin with leather hinged Ingres endpapers and marbled paper doublures. Title and two illustrations from the book are gold tooled for the…
Barber
Dark teal blue French shagreen leather, cover illustrations include acrylic pochoir painting, onlays of various leathers, design details blind tooled. Endbands in two colors of blue silk with white accents. Pastedowns and endsheets made of…
Barber example
Yellow ochre leather with figure onlays, cover illustrations include acrylic pochoir painting and additional onlays of leather, design details blind tooled. Endbands are two shades of wheat colored silk over two cores with a front bead. Pastedowns…
Bruce
Using a three-cover-board structural binding, the volume will be covered in white goatskin leather with red leather doublures. Cover design will be a contemporary cross of wood made of veneers and leather onlays. At the intersection of the vertical…
Bruce example
A sculptural binding covered in painted leather, with sewn headbands and decorated top edge, the structure is a three-cover-board structural binding based on the work of Jan Sobota.
Buchanan
Design is intended to evoke the fundamental purpose of Christian life represented in the text, characterized by its emphasis on the interior life and withdrawal from the world. Book to be bound in black leather with cover design and title embossed in…
Buchanan example
Case binding covered in leather over a sculptural rose with leather head bands, leather cover is hand painted. Box containing the book is an intricate part of the overall design, representing the wall around the secret garden with entrance through a…
Burkhard
Based on simplified French binding. Endsheets of Fabriano Roma handmade paper. Harmatan goatskin in dark green and biscuit cover the front and back boards. Insets on front board include the focal design and title. Larger inset based on…
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