I love springback bindings, especially the German version I learned during my apprenticeship. Below images of one I completed on the textblock of the exhibit catalog for
L'Infinito, one of those international bookbinding competitions and exhibitions. This one was organized by the Provincia di Macerata. Competitors were asked to design bindings for the poem
L'Infinito by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). The catalog has a section for the 125 bindings that formed the exhibition and are considered the best of the entries submitted. The remaining 475 submissions are divided by national school and reproduced without commentary. I lifted the description from
Oak Knoll Books who have a copy of the catalog available in case someone wants to bind it. ;-) I never bought the set book for the exhibit, but did get the catalog as I have a great weakness for exhibit catalogs for my personal library.
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| Exhibit catalogs in my library. An intervention might be called for... |
This all makes for a very hefty tome, just begging for a springback binding. I wanted to show the underlying structure and love veiney calf parchment. This is what I came up with:
German-style springback; sewn on three tapes with endsheets of Roma paper; graphite top edge; red leather wrapped endband; covered with two veined calf vellum panels at top and bottom with center panel painted with textured acrylic; spine and sewing exposed in center panel and painted with textured acrylics; title stamped in gold. 28 x 25.5 x 6.5 cm. Bound 2004.
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| Parchment panels that wrapped around at head and tail. |
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| Detail of spine with the book closed. |
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| Detail of spine with the book opened. |
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| Looking down the "hollow" of the spine. |
My tutorial for the German style of springback can be viewed
here and downloaded
here.
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