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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.…
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…
Kibby example
Natural goatskin with purple Harmatan goatskin, a modified lacunose technique and stingray onlays. Marbled endsheets by Catherine Levine. The two interlocking circles are based on the vesica piscis. The purple ring symbolizes the spiritual with gilt…
Leutz
Binding will utilize Jan Sobota's two-board binding technique. Green goatskin wrinkled as waves, raised dark and light brown goatskin onlays form a canoe, branch pressed into covers resembles shadows from overhanging branches, title stamped in blind,…
Leutz example
Bound using Jan Sobota's two-board binding technique. Terracotta goatskin binding with raised black and brown goatskin onlays to resemble a zebra, title stamped in gold, leather headbands, brown goatskin doublures, top edge colored with acrylics and…
Reid-Cunningham
An un-dyed calfskin binding featuring calf hinges and suminagashi endpapers; sewing on meeting guards and tapes; head decorated with graphite; silk double-core headbands; palladium leaf impressed with swirling lines and abalone shell and edged in…
Reid-Cunningham example
Full blue calf binding with a circle of gold leaf spreading from the spine onto both boards, and inset panels of kidskin, fishskin, goatskin, box calf, and abalone shell at the center of both boards. Tooled in palladium leaf. The House North of South…
Sobota
Bradel structure with floating back. Green pressed lacquered endpapers. Sewn on four natural tapes. Hand colored silk headbands. Green goatskin back with one fishskin strip on spine. Title and author printed with beige foil. Wooden boards covered…
Tapley example
Sewn on tapes and forwarded as a Brockman Concave Spine Binding, tab and slot board attachment. Head gilt and colored. Covered in two colors of goatskin, title inlaid on spine, boards tooled in gilt and foil, back inlaid with eggshell lacquer and…
Kibby example
Full calf-leather binding hand-dyed by the binder, with leather onlays, gold foil stamping and pearlescent acrylic paint. The cover scene illustrates the Lorelei legend. Leather joint construction with marbled paper by Catherine Levine. Hollow back…
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