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Collection: The 6th DeGolyer Competition
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Wozney example
Full dark green goat skin with black goat leather doublures, top edge illustrated with a free-hand design of leaves. Title stamped at an angle on the front of the lime green leather onlay using black foil. Inlays of leaves, based on marble paper by…
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,…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Tapley example
Hand-forged and drawn ingot sterling silver square wire, hand-forged sterling silver "stars," purchased sterling silver tubes for hinges, purchased sterling silver bezels, and purchased lab-grown rubies. All silver except the stars intentionally…
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…
Stackpole example
Traditional-style full leather binding with tight joints and tight back, covered in natural (undyed) Niger goatskin over sculpted boards; upper and lower boards with onlays of multiple leathers embossed with linoleum cuts and with blind, gold, and…
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 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…
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…
Reid-Cunningham example
Pierced vellum binding with yapps and bone clasps. Textblock disbound and edges left untrimmed, original paper covers and spine lined with kozo tissue and bound in. Volume sewn all along on three alum-tawed goatskin thongs with new endsheets of laid…
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…
Nitzberg example
Dark blue goatskin with onlays comprised of vintage English textile designed by William Morris; textiles arranged to create a "Cambridge style" panel motif; gold-tooled design elements. Marbled endpapers. Leather joints, hand-sewn silk endbands.…
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 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…
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…
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.…
Metzger
Parchment bound over sturdy cover boards, highlighting the living patterns of goatskin parchment without flattening the skin in any way by using adhesives. Five parchment lacings weave through the cover creating a variety of crosses. On the front, a…
Leutz example
Bound using the Jan Sobota-style three-board technique, brown leather covers, rust colored leather doublures, center board edged in black goatskin, tooled leather endbands; book edges are graphite. The cover design features twelve cut-out squares in…
Leutz
Bound in the Jan Sobota-style three-board technique, full black goatskin with an inlay design in the front cover consisting of twenty-four leather covered magnetic squares. Twenty-four squares of chocolate brown leather on one side; on the reverse:…
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…
Kibby
Full rust Harmatan goatskin. Cross, nail, and flowing cloth elements are onlays in cream and chocolate goatskin. A sliced geode crystal is inset into a gold and red goatskin dimensional halo at the intersection of the cross beam with a raised circlet…
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…
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