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Ingalls
I like the idea of a historical structure, a stiff-board parchment binding, touched with a bit of modernity by utilizing modern papers in the interior. Binding in red parchment over boards, using the "floating boards" method. Flyleaves and…
Ingalls example
Bound in parchment over boards using the "floating boards" method. Parchment backed with Japanese hanako paper which is also used for the flyleaves and headbands. Sewing tapes in parchment, visible through groove. Hand tooled cover design and title…
Jackson
For this simple panel design of The Restoration of Leather Bindings, I propose a full black goatskin tight-joint case binding. The sheets will be sewn on three tapes, all text block edges will be gilded, and silk headbands will be sewn by hand. The…
Jackson example
The flat back case binding of Carmilla is covered in full black goatskin and has red leather inlays. The title is stamped, the lines are tooled, and the text block edges are gilded in 22 carat gold. This binding also features sewn silk headbands,…
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…
Kamph example
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…
Kibby example
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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 example
Based on medieval binding structures, textblock and marbled endsheets sewn on Pleister tapes with link stitch. Conservation endbands. Layers of pared leather and flannel to support spine, last layer is a vellum spine lining with extended flaps.…
Cooksey example
Full terracotta goatskin with leather hinges, hand-sewn French endbands complement colors of endpapers. Blind-tooled smoke coming out of the side of the book, mirroring the illustrations in the book showing smoke elements.
Deiss and Jackson example
Chieftain goatskin covers; Harmatan morocco onlays of terracotta, peach, navy, brown, light blue, and gray; gold leaf illumination, blind tooling, relief printing on minokichi paper. Binding serves as both protection for the text and canvas for…
Dossett example
Bound in a medieval style with folios sewn using a French link stitch. Endsheets and extra gatherings at front and back added during the sewing, tapes added during the sewing and then frayed, shaved leather added in spaces between the tapes.…
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