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Collection: The 3rd DeGolyer Competition
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Wait example
Terra cotta Harmatan goatskin binding. Hand-decorated paste endsheets with a leather joint. Decorated with leather onlays, acrylic paint, colored foil, and gold tooling. The cross design is based on Wait's own artwork. The square crosses are the…
Wait
Black Harmatan goatskin, with colored leather onlays used for the design of the riverboat and raft. Gold stars will fill the sky and the water will be tooled in wavy blind lines. Brown foil will outline the raft and the front of the riverboat. The…
Stackpole example
Full leather tight-joint style binding. Fine grain dark blue goatskin "sky" across top of binding; spine and part of both boards covered in navy blue Niger goatskin, with induced wrinkles signifying the river; rest of boards covered in dark green…
Thomas example
Walnut veneered wooden tubes lashed together using imitation sinew, tubes then attached to river flotsam (sticks and planking) and other found objects (including a miniature facsimile copy of the first edition of Huckleberry Finn) added to the deck,…
Thomas
The description of the raft and life on the river, as Huck and Jim floated downstream, called to Peter Thomas' creative imagination.The book will be bound as a raft-like structure. He had previously explored the concept of binding unsewn books by…
Takacs
The two shades of calf represent two colors of skin. Moser plates will be pressed into the dampened lighter calf to make the images. The red leather inlay is the Mississippi. Red is blood and race which branches like the story. The line disappears on…
Sullivan
The book will be disassembled and reassembled in the three-board structure method. It will be sewn with thick linen thread on Tamieband tapes. The inner and outer boards, doublure, and cover onlay will be shades of blue Harmatan goat leather. There…
Stackpole
Dark blue Niger goatskin to portray the river, with the spine grain on the spine of the book, flowing down the center of the binding from a distant horizon line where the river meets the sky. Dark green Niger goatskin emphasizing the contours of the…
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…
Sobotova
Triple cover board binding structure, leather headbands with dark brown and beige onlays, edges painted dark brown and beige imitating wood engraving technique. Dark brown Harmatan goatskin for the top cover, beige goatskin for the middle boards, and…
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 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…
Reid-Cunningham
Reid-Cunningham sees a darker America described in Huckleberry Finn. He will bind Huckleberry Finn in black calfskin boards and doublures, with graphite edges, black Bugra flyleaves, silk doublescore endbands, and gold and blind tooling and titling.…
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…
Bruce example
A combination of a variety of three-dimensional materials to create an artist binding that is sculptural in nature.
Caine example
Quarter leather orange goatskin, marbled paper boards with vellum tipped corners, writing pen and title label attached. Gold-tooled title on spine.
Reid-Cunningham example
Bound in alum-tawed goatskin with boards lined with Formica. Roma endsheets. Sewn double-flexible on linen cords. Edges sprinkled with black and red ink. Reverse bead primary endbands. Red and black silk doublecore secondary endbands. Alum-tawed…
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.
Sullivan example
This case-bound book was disassembled and reassembled in the three board structure method (which includes a hollow-tube spine) introduced by Jan Sobota. It was sewn with thick linen thread on Ramieband tapes. All three boards, doublure, and onlay…
Sobota example
Triple cover board binding structure, gold leather headbands with top edge in gold, brown Harmatan goatskin for the top cover, gold leather middle, and dark blue goatskin for the doublures, flyleaves are blue suede leather. A cut through technique is…
Lawrence example
Split board binding of black and grey goatskin with silver goatskin onlay over shaped boards & spine; agate slice set into front board; lap-link sewing over tapes; silver & bronze goatskin headbands; and marbled paper by Catherine Levine.
Sobotova example
Triple boards attached binding, dark green goatskin for covers and doublures, beige goatskin for middle boards. Sculpted relief depicting ocean water movement. Hand-carved, hand-blown glass set within the front and back covers depicting two main…
Leutz
Flax cords will be used to re-sew the binding into existing holes and will be used to "lash" the raft onto the cover boards. Raft of brown goatskin leather covered boards with appearance of wood. Edges decorated with graphite with blind-tooled lines…
Lawrence
The binding will consist of split board binding of Sokoto native-tanned goatskin over shaped boards and spine; lap-link sewing over tapes utilizing existing sewing stations; reverse-bead primary headbands of linen, secondary decorative embroidery in…
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…
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