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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.

Various decorative techniques on tan Hewit's goatskin leather including traditional onlay leather with gold and blind tooling, painted and stenciled acrylic, and colored cut-foil technique. Geological strata of back-pared leather symbolizes layers of…

Pastepaper décor on Arches text paper with text printed on a HP 1500 inkjet printer. Full leather binding in green Harmatan goatskin. Decorated with leather onlay work, gold tooling, back-pared onlays applied prior to covering, cut foil stamping…

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…

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.

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…

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…

Full red chagrin leather binding in the French technique. Hand sewn silk endbands, handcolored and "crackled" gold top edge, and gold pastepaper endpapers. Title and tooling in 23 karat gold. The volume housed in a matching chemise, slipcase, and…

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…

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,…

Beige goatskin with onlays of yellow, terracotta, dark brown, and chocolate brown goatskin; inlay of medium blue goatskin. Blind and gold tooling; top edge gilt; hand embroidered headbands; flyleaves and doublures of silk. Full beige goatskin chemise…

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…

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:…

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…

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.…

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…

French technique fine binding with sewn-on flattened cords laced into boards covered in full goatskin using Paul Delrue's lacunose technique. Goatskin onlay and inlaid lines. Leather joints, suede flyleaves, earth tone textured machine-made Japanese…

Sewn on flattened cords laced into boards covered in goatskin using Paul Delrue's lacunose technique. Goatskin onlay and inlaid lines. Additional lines incised freehand with "Ascona tool." Leather joints, suede flyleaves, green Takeo paper doublures.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Bradel structure with flying boards. Sewn on four yellow snakeskin strips. Yellow leather headbands. Red goatskin back. Wooden boards covered with mahogany veneer. Wooden relief onlays. Ochre suede flyleaves. Decoration depicting Edgard Claes's…
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