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This page last updated on
February 2, 2013
hese resources are periodically updated with information from the Standards of Excellence Seminars. Currently, handouts from presentations are being uploaded to the site. For a full list of past presenters, go to the History page. Reviews of many of the presentations are available in the GBW Journal. Back issues are available.
If you have copies of missing handouts or there is something else you would like to post here, please contact Henry Hébert, Communications Chair.
Many thanks to GBW members Mark Andersson and Peter Verheyen for spearheading this project!
Sample handouts and other resources
- Gary Frost: Illuminator of the Ways of the Book
a broadside from the 2010 Standards of Excellence, handed out in honor of Gary receiving the GBW Lifetime Achievement Award. Read about the making of the broadside, too. - Oriental Papermaking
by Jim Canary
Midwest Annual Meeting and Workshop March 2001
Handouts from Past Standards Seminars
2012 - Salt Lake City, Utah
- Daniel Kelm: Binding Structures Featuring Removable Pages(Handout 1) (Handout 2)
- Steve Miller: The Sandragraph Approach
- Pamela Smith: Marbling -Traditional and More
2011 - Boston, Massachusetts
- Katherine Beaty: Islamic Bookbinding
- John DeMerritt: Edition Binding - A Hybrid Approach
- Daniel Essig: Scratching the Surface - Disguising and Embellishing Wood
- Todd Pattison: Conservation of 19th Century Publisher’s Bindings
2010 - Tucson, Arizona
- Michael Burke: Byzantine Binding
- Nancy Ruth Leavitt: In Search of Content - The Joys and Challenges of Creating in the Book Form
- Martha Little: Book Forensics - Interpreting Evidence of Structure
- Jefffery S. Peachey: Late 18th Century French Binding Structures
2009 - San Francisco, California
2008 - Toronto, Ontario
- Martha Cole: Contemporary Applications of Wheat Paste on Cloth
- Betsy Palmer Eldridge: Sixty Sewing Structures
(This is also available in a pamphlet layout if you wish to print and sew your own copy.) - Don Etherington: Alum Tawed Bindings
2007 - Dallas, Texas
- Stuart Brockman: Gold Leaf Tooling on Leather
2005 - Portland, Oregon
- Paul Delrue: Lacunose (An Artistic Invention of Leather)
- Hedi Kyle: Wunderkabinette: Architectural Book Environments
- Renate Mesmer: Edelpappband (Paper Binding)
- Betsy Palmer-Eldridge: Sharpening Tips
2004 - Providence, Rhode Island
- Peter Geraty: Edge Decoration Techniques
- Mark Andersson: Half-leather Trade Binding
- Kiyoshi Imai: Japanese Pouch/Four Hole Binding
- Adam Larsson: Medieval Limp Vellum/Leather Structure
- Nancy Southworth: Conservation of Historic Bindings Using Adhesive and Non-adhesive Methods
- P.J. Saine: Foundations Workshop on Photographing Your Artwork
- Friday Night Forum:
- Betsy Palmer-Eldridge: Hand Trimming Book Edges
- Betsy Palmer-Eldridge: Binding Folio Images: Maps and Art Work
2003 - Denver, Colorado
- Richard Baker: Spring Back Ledger Bindings
- Julie Chen: Presentation Considerations in the Design and Creation of Artist's Books
- Mark Esser: Covering in Leather
- Tini Miura: Incorporating 3-Dimensional Objects into Cover Design
- Claire Maziarczyk: Getting the Look: The 4 "P's" Of Pastepaper Patterns
- Friday Night Forum:
- Donia Conn and Peter Verheyen: A Select Bibliograpy of Historic Endbands
- Betsy Palmer-Eldridge: Finishing Without Finishing Tools
- Sharon Long: The Painted Clamshell with a Plate Inclusion
- Donia Conn and Peter Verheyen: A Select Bibliograpy of Historic Endbands
2002 - Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Bridget O'Malley: Paper Making Before and After: Pulp, Paper & Beyond
- Dennis Ruud: Illumination
- Monique Lallier: Chemise & Slipcase
- Olivia Primanis: Historical & Contemporary Album Structures
- Carol Marrin: Keynote Speaker (Saint John's Bible Project)
- Friday Night Forum:
- Betsy Eldridge: The Checkerboard Album Structure
- Barbara Korbel: 3D Objects on Book Covers
- William Minter: Tool Time
- Brenda Parsons: Two Tool Jigs
2001 - Alexandria, Virginia
- Christine Smith: Paper Repair
- Peter Verheyen: Vellum Binding
(for expanded handout, click here) - S.A. Neff Jr.: Leather Decoration
- Suzanne Moore: Traditional Foundations Of Non-Traditional Artwork
- Martha Cole: Foundations Workshop on Color Theory and Practical Tips on Coloring Paper and Cloth
2000 - Salt Lake City, Utah
- Pamela Spitzmueller: Girdle Bindings
- Terry Buckley: Medieval Binding Techniques
- Karen Zukor: Adhesives
- William Minter: Tool Time! Sharpening Knives & Other Useful Ideas
- Betsy Palmer Eldridge: Foundations Workshop on Leather (bibliography is online).
1999 - Chicago, Illinois
- Jesse Munn, Terry Boone & Mary Wooton: Know Your Endpapers!
- Daniel Kelm: Wire-Edge Binding
- Scott Kellar: Rounded Leather Drop-Spine Boxes
- Betsy Palmer Eldridge: Foundations Workshop On Paste, Paper And Cloth
1998 - Greensboro, North Carolina
- Carol Barton: Paper Engineering & Pop-Ups
- Anthony Cains: On The Ellesmere Manuscript - Preparing For Facsimile & Repair
- Linda Hohneke: Decorative Papers
- Linda Blaser & J. Franklin Mowery: English & German Style Leather Paring
1997 - Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Pamela Spitzmueller: Long & Link Stitch Binding
- Dag-Ernst Petersen: How To Treat Wooden Boards
1996 - Pasadena, California
- Jan Sobota: Cuir Cisele or Leather Schnitt
- Richard Horton: Opening Up Photo Album Possibilities
- Louise Genest: Exposed Spine Binding
- Terry Buckley: Dyeing & Staining Leather
1995 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Elaine Schlefer: Rx for Sick Books from NYAM
- Mindell Dubansky & Priscilla Spitler: Contemporary Edition Binding
- John Hyltoft: Danish Millimeter Binding
1994 - Dallas, Texas
- Robert Espinosa: Modified Limp Vellum Binding
- J. Franklin Mowery: Mending Vellum Bindings
- Eleanore Ramsey: In Search of Elegance: Board Edges Redefined
1993 - Boston, Massachusetts
- Betsy Palmer Eldridge: Sewing Variations
- Sun Evrard: Simplified Binding Structure
- Claire Maziarczyk: Pastepaper - Traditional & Contemporary
- William Minter: Using the Hot Stamping Press
1992 - San Francisco, California
- Bernard Middleton: Rebacking a Leather Tight-Back Book
- Claire Van Vliet: The Making Of A Book - Bone Songs
1991 - Bloomington, Indiana
- Hedi Kyle: Special Enclosures
- Donald Etherington: Conservation Treatments
1990 - Washington, DC
- James Brockman: Rebacking Leather Bindings
- Monique Lallier: Edge-To-Edge Doublures
- Tini Miura: French Onlay Technique & Gilding
- J. Franklin Mowery: Techniques & Logic Of German Bookbinding
- Deborah Evetts: Speaker
1989 - Portland, Oregon
- Betsy Palmer Eldridge: Basic Paper Conservation
- Donald Guyot: Suminagashi: Japanese Marbled Paper
1987 - Austin, Texas
- Richard-Gabrielle Rummonds & Craig Jensen:Collaboration Of Printers & Binders
- Barbara Meier-James: Paper Mending
1986 - Iowa City, Iowa
- Scott Kellar: Book Enclosures
1985 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- David Brock: Tool Sharpening
- Jerilyn Davis: Rebacking Cloth Bindings
1984 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Donald Etherington: Paring Leather Covers
1983 - Boston, Massachusetts
- Donald Etherington: Guarding and Endpaper Construction
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