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Elder

Gebrochener Rücken (modified Bradel) binding with text sewn onto tapes. Covers made of cerise-colored silk, embroidered in metallic gold with Chi-Rho symbol on the front cover and Alpha-Omega symbol on the back cover. Symbols framed by lace,…

Ensign

Tan calfskin with inlaid calf lettering. Flyleaves and doublures of marbled paper. Brown roma endpapers with calf hinges. Hand sewn double core headbands with brown, tan and white silk. Top edge colored brown with acrylics. To be housed in a linen…

Esther Kibby proposal

Etherington

Binding of black goatskin with design incorporating two crosses, front and back. Cross on front raised from surface of cover and highly polished. Back cover cross polished on plane with surface. Blind-tooled lines encircle both crosses. Gold-tooled…

Etherington

Full purple goatskin with colored onlays and gold tooling with a cross motif.

Etherington

Full goatskin binding with large onlay across binding, laser cut shapes representing various tools used in bookbinding and restoration, and gold-tooled borders for onlays. This proposal for The Restoration of Leather Bindings reflects the subject of…

Evetts

Full leather binding in three colors of morocco with quotations tooled and stamped in gold. The design is subdued and reflects the layout and printing of the text. Judges' Distinction for Interpretation

Feinstein

Full purple goatskin binding; sewn-in leather hinge; leather doublures surface gilt and tooled in palladium, with tripartite corner motifs with onlays; double core silk headbands; neutral endpapers matching the text. The outside of the book is meant…

Feinstein

Full red goatskin leather fine binding sewn on German tapes, laced into boards. The top edge decorated in alternating sections of gold and palladium prior to sewing. Double-core silk headbands. Pastedowns and flyleaves of a "Dutch curl" marbled…

Fletcher

Bound in full brown goatskin using traditional hand embroidery techniques in gilt thread to imitate a historical gilt panel design. Line border on outer panel and along board edges are hand tooled and gilt. Spine decorated with mix of embroidered and…

Forrest Jackson proposal

Fox Butler

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Full leather binding of alum-tawed goatskin colored with aniline dyes. Tooled in gold and palladium. Title tooled on spine.

Fox

This binding highlights the typeface, particularly the large red A.

Fox

Full leather binding in pink, yellow, and gray with black goatskin doublures and fly leaves, silk embroidered headbands, and tooling in gold and palladium. Tooled title on the spine.

Fox

Full dark brown goatskin with insets of parchment manuscripts, and onlays of native dyed goatskin with blind and gold tooling. Full leather endpapers produced using the same techniques would complement the front and bottom boards. The endbands would…

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

Full terracota goatskin, green goatskin doublures, and Cave paper endpapers. The four books of the text are represented by the four pages of different colored green goatskin onlays circling in and surrounding the dusting of gold which represents the…

Fox

The hand tooling along the colored leather strips represent traditional lacing-on of boards and Bernard Middleton's approach to design expressed in his Recollections: A Life in Bookbinding. (This sample is only a representation of the decorative…

Franklin

The entire book will be bound in terra cotta Harmatan goat skin. Inlaid into a frame built of layers of binder's board, the front cover features a photograph taken and printed by the binder, applied to heavy matte paper, and covered with transparent…

Franklin

Beveled double boards layered with hand-laid paper, vellum spine lining, seven raised bands, sewn in headbands. Scarlet Harmatan goat hide molded on a bas-relief sculptural substrate of Arches watercolor paper layered in three planes. Endpapers hand…

Frost

Codex binding. Mesquite boards. Wrapped endstrip at head and tail. Only two sewing sections are pierced through the folds. Stenciled design on front and back boards.

Frost

The design will reconstruct the text into the original printer's sheets. The evidences of this copy's previous binding will remain. Each printer's sheet will be reconstructed with kozo guards as a throw out. The sewn boards binding structure will be…

Gabrielle Fox proposal

Geigel

Full leather binding in the French technique, with a leather onlay extending from the top corner of the rear cover over the spine and widening towards the top corner of the front cover. The inside covers would be finished in a grey leather…

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…

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