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Collection: The 6th DeGolyer Competition
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Elder example
Gebrochener Rücken (modified Bradel) binding with text sewn onto tapes. Covers made of watered silk, embroidered with Tudor-era motifs in silk and metallic gold, and embellished with seed pearls. Gold and white decorated endpapers, hand-sewn silk…
Kibby example
Full deep blue Harmatan goatskin with feathered alum-tawed and multicolored onlays, using a puckering technique for dimensional texture. Cover scene illustrates waves washing upon the shoreline delivering sea creatures. The starfish is built up into…
Metzger example
Blank book covered in full goat parchment using a laced-case structure. Text sewn on parchment straps laced through cover, silk front-bead endband sewn on flat parchment core. Covering parchment attached to case using mechanical non-adhesive methods.…
Sobota example
Box binding made of goatskin, frog leather, elephant leather, and goat horns. Sobota three-board binding structure covered with brown goatskin, book-box edges covered with orange snakeskin, center of boards with oval cutouts, light goat parchment…
Wozney
Full graphite-grey buffalo leather with matching doublures, flyleaves will be marble paper designed by MarbleSmith in the colors of grey, gold, and deep pink. Sewn silk headbands will also incorporate these colors. The front cover will have an onlay,…
Ramsey example
Full grey Chagrin (French morocco) goatskin with tooled mosaics in six colors of grey leather forming an exotic bouquet of flowers extending around the book. The bouquet includes pencils of yellow morocco, brick colored leather erasers, and silver…
Wood
French technique lace-in boards, covered in full leather in Harmatan purple goatskin, sewn headbands of purple and gold, gold top edge may be added if this does not create conservation problems. Boards laced in with relief decoration raising the…
Wood example
French technique lace-in boards, covered in full leather in Harmatan purple goatskin. Sewn headbands and 14k gold top edge. Hand carved two-ply board inlay with 14k gold ink. Endpapers are original paste paper made by the binder.
Lawrence example
Full beige goatskin over bas-relief boards depicting the Holy Spirit as a descending dove, onlays of goatskin, calfskin, and kangaroo skin in various colors; surface gilding; hand-embroidered headbands of purple and pale yellow silk; flyleaves and…
Deiss and Jackson example
Chieftain goatskin covers; Harmatan morocco onlays of terracotta, peach, navy, brown, light blue, and gray; gold leaf illumination, blind tooling, relief printing on minokichi paper. Binding serves as both protection for the text and canvas for…
Thomas
The pages of the book will be folded to form a cross and the volume will be bound in plain sackcloth. The binders will harvest fiber from plants growing around the monument to Thomas à Kempis at Mount Saint Agnes in the Netherlands and then use these…
Thomas example
The cover and all of the pages of the book have been cut and folded in the shape of a cross, and this altered book has been placed in a hinged wooden chemise. Wooden crosses are affixed to the front and back covers and a jeweled clasp acts as a…
Tapley
Design draws upon late eighteenth-century Rococo patterns as well as the world-wide pan-historical tradition of making jeweled bindings for spiritual texts. Exuberant lines incorporate references to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Crucifixion, and the…
Gilly example
Quarter blue goatskin with glass boards; text sewn onto linen tapes laced through holes drilled in zinc frame with brass tubing soldered into holes; hand embroidered silk headbands; all edges colored with graphite; title blind stamped on label of…
Stackpole
Traditional-style tight-joint binding, sewn on seven raised bands covered in beige Niger goatskin and tooled with blind lines evocative of fifteenth-century blind-tooled bindings of the time when The Imitation of Christ was first published. Onlay of…
Sobota
Box binding with three-board structure using Harmatan Nigerian goatskins, black for the binding and dark red for the doublures, with designs based on the Paris 1788 edition of the text. Hand-gilded 23k lines on all three sides of box binding would…
Jackson example
Unbound sheets of the two titles sewn as a single volume on three double-cord stations, plain wound endbands sewn with fine Italian silk. Quarter-sawn silver maple boards cut, planed, beveled, and channeled using traditional woodworking tools. Ends…
Reid-Cunningham
Pierced vellum binding, designs tooled and cut into the vellum to reveal brightly colored boards, title and tooling in gold and metallic foils. Design utilizes the repetition of a few limited geometric elements. The letters of the title, parallel…
Ramsey
Ref French Cape morocco with design inspired by French cathedral windows. Covers tooled in blind and gold with black mosaics. Doublures of black and grey engraved decorated papers to compliment the frontispiece. Flyleaves of black suede. Title tooled…
Pullman
Full maroon goatskin with red leather onlays. Traditional panel and gilt spine with individual tools to acknowledge the period when the book was printed, a more contemporary design element with the figure of the young Christ tooled in the front…
Hanmer example
French technique binding sewn on flattened cords, laced into boards and covered in a variety of hues of blue leather, mostly goatskin. Tooling and titling in carbon, 23k gold, and dark blue foils. Edge-to-edge goatskin doublures, flyleaves of navy…
Nies example
French style full goat leather, top edge gilt with spiral tooled decoration, double headbands. Upper and lower boards with gold and blind-tooled design, goat leather onlays on top board. Silk front and rear pastedowns, marbled paper by Einen Miura of…
Nitzberg
Original textblock conserved as needed. Original sewing holes utilized, book to be sewn on five cords with linen sewing threads, no additional edge treatment. Five cords laced into boards and extensions of the textile spine lining adhered to inside…
Nies
Resew textblock using seven flattened hemp cords, consolidate spine, hide glue, backing and rounding, laced on blue boards, no edge treatment, wrap text block, three color double silk headband using batonets. Spine and covers: repair headbands with…
Pullman example
Sewn on four linen tapes with sponge painted edges and hand sewn silk endbands. Covered in light brown Hewit goatskin with leather hinged Ingres endpapers and marbled paper doublures. Title and two illustrations from the book are gold tooled for the…
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