Barber example

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Yellow ochre leather with figure onlays, cover illustrations include acrylic pochoir painting and additional onlays of leather, design details blind tooled. Endbands are two shades of wheat colored silk over two cores with a front bead. Pastedowns and endsheets are pastepapers made by the binder that suggest the wheat which Ruth was allowed to glean from Boaz's field after their arrival in Israel.

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Kershisnik, Brian, woodcuts

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The Book of Ruth. Woodcuts by Brian Kershisnik. Provo, Utah: Tryst Press, 2011.

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Book

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The 6th DeGolyer Competition

Citation

Kershisnik, Brian, woodcuts, “Barber example,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed November 14, 2025, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2291.

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