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Metzger example

Title

Metzger example

Subject

example binding

Description

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. Wings and nest cut from goatskin parchment.

Source

Bird Book. Blank book created in 2005 and exhibited in the Guild of Book Workers 100th Anniversary Exhibition.

Publisher

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Date

Rights

This work is protected by copyright law. No commercial reproduction or distribution is permitted. This file may be used for educational uses only, provided it is not altered in any way, and the copyright line is cited. (Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU).

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Type

Book

Collection

The 6th DeGolyer Competition

Citation

“Metzger example,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed February 12, 2026, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2255.