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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…
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 example
Bradford was a member of the “Order of the Blue String” of the Society of the Garrett, Gotham, 1815. Endpapers and inlays are woodblock prints depicting the secret script of the “Society” and the Knight of the Folding-Stick, a creature fashioned from…
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 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…
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 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…
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 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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Leutz example
Book bound in two-three board binding structure, developed by Jan Sobota with purple French chagrin leather over raised design with attached objects, tooled top edge, sewn silk headbands, doublure and flysheet are copies of Barry Moser's…
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 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.
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 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.
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