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Lawrence example
Fine binding in full terra cotta goatskin sewn on raised cords and bands. Plumb bob of turquoise, onyx, and moonstone set in sterling silver by Steven Jay Coben; gold tooled line, blacked tooled arc and title; all edges colored; embroidered silk…
Barber example
Full blue goatskin over laced on boards. End papers and doublures of Japanese chiyogami. Hand-sewn silk headbands. Leather onlay, hand tooled verses with India ink, acrylic paints and gold foil stamping. The design represents God's word from creation…
Bruce example
Case binding with rust-orange goatskin leather. Multi-colored onlaid leathers are incorporated on to the raised body of the raven designed by the artist to wrap around the surface of the book. A faceted citrine is set as the raven's eye. A black…
Cordeiro example
Green chagrin leather over boards with raised profile and ear motif, with various tan leather inlays; two raised bands; top and bottom edges speckled.
Fox example
Full dark green and alum-tawed goatskin dyed with gold and palladium leaf and colored foil tooling. The center page is endpapers laminated together with foil tooling. Head colored and gilded center pleat in the binding and the center page. Sewn with…
Hanmer example
The design echoes a cartoon from the text. Full dark blue Harmatan goatskin, backpared onlays of various blues and greens, and black foil tooling. Marbled endsheets by Cris Takacs, leather joint. Sewn endbands of dark green and dark blue silk.…
Ingalls example
The binding reflects the style and techniques proposed for Ficciones including a linear cover design, leather doublure and flyleaf, blind tooling throughout, bound in the French technique. The design is the journey from nothing to nothing on the…
Jackson example
Full purple goatskin with black and silver leather onlays. Blind-tooled title on spine. Platinum-tooled stars and Hale-Bopp Comet with UFOs on the front board. In the recessed center is a glow-in-the-dark alien reminiscent of that worshiped by the…
Spitler example
Special set of sheets presented by author to Spitler for design binding. Full gold Chieftain goatskin, leather onlays, blind and gold tooling, pochoir acrylics. Ancient fruit, fig and pomegranate represent the Garden of Eden as a snake crosses the…
Taylor example
Cased in two boards with Harmatan purple leather #29. Text paper is Arches text wove. Marbled endpapers by Kevin Taylor. Flexible purple leather spine colored with gold pigment paint and sewn with “x” stitching to leather covers.
Wood example
Clamshell box and cover, built in three pieces. Original hand-dyed bookcloth by binder used inside box and quarter bind, elsewhere Cialux evergreen cloth. Binding is traditional codex, with linen thread and tapes, endpapers are deep green Hahnemuhle…
Kamph
The design reflects the way in which Mark Twain layered his narrative to explore the relationships among ideas of adventures, literature of adventure, and adventure itself. Book will be in brown oasis goatskin and with an inlaid beige goatskin rope.…
Kamph example
Grey oasis goatskin with multicolored, gold-tooled onlays in a frieze design, based on an antique Malaysian pattern with figures taken from a text illustration. The volume is titled in gold on the spine with letters made up from small tools.…
Lallier
Full leather French technique using black French Morocco du Cap, raised boards delineating the river beds, creased pewter to represent the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers. Onlays of different colors used to represent the emotions…
Lallier example
Full Buffalo leather French-technique binding with edge-to-edge leather doublures and flyleaves. Pewter onlays over boards underlying the leather, silk embroidered headbands. The book was bound in 2001.
Ramsey
Front and back covers will represent a map of the central United States surrounding the Mississippi River Valley during the mid-1840s. Each state or territory is to be individually covered in one of fifteen colors of green leather. As the book is…
Ramsey example
Full, dark brown French Cape morocco binding with unique magnetic closure developed by binder. Front cover design with Garnett's Laboratory Press printer's device, also in blind on verso. Onlays of French Cape morocco and chagrin leathers with paste…
Spitler
Full dark blue Harmatan #12 goatskin in a traditional laced-on boards binding, paste paper ends will be created by the binder utilizing a leather joint construction, sewn headbands and tooled spine title. The proposed design captures the early…
Spitler example
Full green, goatskin over laced-on boards. Paste paper ends by the binder. Design executed with painted foil stamped onlaid leather, tooling colored foils, and relief imagery. The motif illustrates the transformation of a women, the object of the…
Sobota
The binding structure is a triple cover board, with hand sewn headbands of green and blue silk, top edge painted brown. Navy blue goatskin for top cover and dark green goatskin for the doublures. Brass strips will be attached to the edges of the…
Bennett
Full leather binding with hand-sewn silk headbands. Included will be various black-to-brown-to-white goatskin onlay links. Onlay titling will be rendered in the style of Twain's writing. An inlaid vellum sheet of writing paper depicts Twain's writing…
Bennett example
Three board structure with two-piece leather covering (one is suede to create a pictorial sunset). Inlaid agate, various green leather onlays and ascona line onlays were added in reds and oranges. There is onlay titling on the spine. The riverboat is…
Bruce
Modern cover, vivid in color, with leather and type over copper plates. The proposed binding will be leather bound with inset distressed copper circles, and the endsheets will be a bright color to match one of the leather circles. The color of the…
Bruce example
A combination of a variety of three-dimensional materials to create an artist binding that is sculptural in nature.
Caine
Quarter leather binding of red and brown goatskin, the boards covered in painted paper collage with vellum tips, the title on front board is gold-tooled. Embedded in the front cover will be a glass bottle containing actual Mississippi River water.
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