Joint Designer Bookbinders and Society of Bookbinders Weekend Workshops

 

The seventh series of workshops offered jointly by Designer Bookbinders and the Society of Bookbinders for 2009-2010 has been announced as follows:

Cloth Rebacking
25th-26th September 2010
Tutor: Dominic Riley
Venue: Ulverston, Cumbria

Japanese Bookbinding
23rd-24th October 2010
Tutor: Kathy Abbott
Venue: The Conway Bindery, Halifax

Single and Multi-Section Rod Bindings
20th-21st November 2010
Tutor: Peter Jones
Venue: York Minster Library

Leather Onlays and Inlays
22nd-23rd January 2011
Tutor: Derek Hood
Venue: Bath Printmakers, Larkhall, Bath

Knife Sharpening and Leather Paring
19th-20th February 2011
Tutor: John Sewell
Venue: Flora Ginn Bindery, London SW4

Gold Finishing
19-20 March 2011
Tutor: Stuart Brockman
Venue: Allen Street, London W8

All courses cost £125 plus a materials fee. Further information with full details of the workshops, tutors, registration and booking forms are available on the societies' websites:

www.designerbookbinders.org.uk
or
www.societyofbookbinders.com

North Bennett Steet School

Three Month Bookbinding Intensive
13th September - 10th December 2010, Monday - Friday, 08:30-14:30, with studio time until 16.30
Stacie Dolin, Instructor
Cost $6500

This class is designed for those who want to intensely study bookbinding in a three-month time period. Participation in the three-month class can also be used by students who wish to enhance their skills to be better prepared to attend the full-time Bookbinding program. This class is suitable for the brand-new beginner, or the moderately experienced binder who wishes to practice and hone skills. Covered in this class are the foundational content of two of our workshops, Introduction to Non-Adhesive and Cloth Case Bookbinding. Specific structures include: Coptic, historic long-stitch, long-stitch with wrapper, crossed structure, flat back and rounded and backed cloth case, full, half, and quarter cloth case, a cloth case production project, onset, modified split, and simplified boards, basic enclosures, including four flap, slipcase, and clamshell, case binding variants, including endpaper attachment variations, headbands, album structures, foil stamping and more, as time allows. Field trips and other topics will be part of the curriculum depending on student interest. Please note: this is not a fine binding/leather binding class. The tuition includes a materials fee for paper and other basic supplies; for the most part, students are expected to provide their own materials and hand tools. If you don't already own bookbinding tools, expect to spend approximately $200 on tools for this course, in addition to tuition. A deposit of $1800 is required to hold your spot. The balance is due one week before class begins.

Further deatils available from the North Bennett Street School Web Site

The American Academy of Bookbinding

The Academy has a variety of interesting classes scheduled for fall 2010, and space is still available in most classes.

The following is a list of classes scheduled at their Telluride Campus:

Intermediate/Advanced Fine Binding with Don Glaister
13th - 24th September 2010
This course is for students with some experience in leather. Students will bind two leather books, and techniques taught include laced-in boards, French-style embroidery end bands, leather hinges, sunken suede leather doublures, design techniques, and more.

Pigment on Paper with Suzanne Moore
27th September - 1st October 2010
This intensive week will provide hands-on experience in select techniques and design of paper decoration. Participants will explore the range of possibilities of surface design on paper, using stenciling, acrylic paint and paste variations, and tinting and sealing to create rich and distinct papers.

Separate Board Structure, with Monique Lallier
4th - 8th October 2010
Monique prefers to call this technique 'separate board structure' because it is not a 'simple' structure, it is a precise technique. It is less demanding than a laced-in binding but not simple at all for beginners. The beauty of this technique is that the spine can be in leather and the boards covered with decorative papers, cloth or leather.

At the AAB Ann Arbor campus at Hollander's, they offer the following courses:

Fundamentals of Bookbinding with Monique Lallier
13th - 24th September 2010
In this introduction to leather binding, students will learn the different steps of traditional bookbinding, beginning with case binding, and will lay the foundation for future fine binding and specialty courses. This is th first class in the diploma program for both Fine Binding and Conservation.

Account Bookbinding with Springback with Don Etherington
27th - 1st October 2010
By popular demand, Don Etherington offers this five-day class where participants will construct and cover an account book with springback, and, if time permits, a covering using Russian bands will be attempted.

Stiff Board and Limp Binding in Vellum with Don Etherington
4th - 8th October 2010
In this five-day class, at least two books will be bound in 16th century historical vellum styles. Vellum is not used as much in modern binding, but remains quite appropriate for strong and beautiful bindings.

For more information on these and other AAB classes and to register,
go to www.ahhaa.org or email aab@ahhaa.org, or call 970-728-8649.

The Morgan Art of Paper Making: Conservatory and Educational Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio

Layer Upon Layer
11th - 12th September 2010, 10.00 - 16.00
Instructed by Cynthia Thompson
Magic happens when letterpress printing combines with the basics of hand papermaking. Focusing on the expanded use of the stencil, you will be introduced to the basics of both hand papermaking and letterpress printing through the creation of a multi-layered broadside print edition. This edition will be housed within a handmade paper folio. You will form handmade sheets of paper containing a unique watermark created from a stencil you design and create using the demonstrated techniques. Expanded displays of papermaking artistry illustrate innovations such as "line bleeding," where pigmented pulp is flooded through a stencil to create an image. Applying various methods and imagery, you will craft and use a second set of stencils for printing on the letterpress. A thorough demonstration of pressure printing will be covered including instructions for creating stencils- from the very simple to the more intricate- using various methods and imagery, ink modification, various printing techniques and suggestions for collaborative endeavors with other media. Following these detailed demonstrations, a multi-layered broadside print on handmade paper will be produced. Additionally, broadsides, prints and artists' books that incorporate pressure printing techniques with other media such as woodcut, digital prints, and hand papermaking techniques will be presented.

Cynthia Thompson is currently Professor of Book and Paper Arts at Memphis College of Art. Thompson has also been visiting faculty at University of Georgia's study abroad program in Cortona, Italy teaching both papermaking and book arts. Thompson was the recipient of the 2003 Tennessee State Arts Commission Fellowship Grant and has been awarded numerous residencies including Yaddo, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Women's Studio Workshop Book Art Residency, the Visual Studies Workshop Book Art Residency, a residency at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and most recently a residency at the Atlanta Printmakers Studio. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at the Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA, the Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN and the Lewis Gallery at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS. Her work is in the collection of Arkansas State University, the Tennessee State Museum and Dieu Donne Papermill. Thompson received her BFA in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. In addition to teaching at Memphis College of Art for the past ten years, previously Thompson worked at Dieu Donne Papermill, Harlan & Weaver Intaglio, Inc. and the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, now the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions.
Cost $195 - Class limit 12

More information will be available soon at: www.morganconservatory.org

The Society of Bookbinders - London & South Region Autumn Programme

11th September 2010 - Doug Mitchell - Long Stitch Binding

Doug has been a bookbinder for 40 years. He was a five year apprentice and has worked for the British Museum and Foreign Office Binderies. Doug is now working as a paper and book conservator at the British Library Centre for Conservation in London. He is a regular face at the SoB conferences lecturing at York in 2007.

The long stitch binding was an early form of book which prevailed from the 1st to 4th centuries. This early codex binding, like the Coptic book structure, is still very popular with the modern binder. This is because there are so many methods of sewing a long stitch. For our purposes we are going to concentrate on one simple style which is the leather wrapper structure.

This one day introduction will have you reproducing this early form of book structure but using modern papers to produce a decorative and pleasing non-adhesive binding.

PLEASE NOTE: There is an additional materials charge of £15 per member, which can be paid on the day. If you prefer to bring your own leather the dimensions are 20mm x 48mm and the charge for paper only will be £6.

Please bring the following if you can:
- Leather (optional)
- Ruler
- Bonefolder
- Scissors
- Pencil/rubber
- Needle (medium)
- Cutting mat
- Dividers
- Bookbinders awl
- Glue brush (medium)

Numbers will be strictly limited to 20 for this practical workshop, and will be allocated on a first come first served basis - places will be reserved once payment is received!

The workshop will be held at The Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BF. The nearest underground connections are Piccadilly and Green Park. Members should be aware that the room being used is situated on the second floor and is only accessible via stairs.

9th October 2010 - Stephen Conway - Decorative Techniques for Paper/Leather & a Quarter Leather Dropback Box

After serving a five year apprenticeship Stephen established his own business in 1985 and now runs one of the few commercial craft binderies operating in the North of England. Situated in Halifax, West Yorkshire, the bindery specializes in fine bookbinding for publishers and collectors, small to medium run limited editions for private presses, boxmaking and repair/rebind work for the antiquarian book trade. He accepts commissions for fine bindings and his bindings are to be found in private collections and institutions worldwide, including the British Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington and the Lilly Library in Indiana. His most recent project, in conjunction with James and Stuart Brockman, has been the binding of 'The Highgrove Florilegium'.

The morning session, which will be similar to that given at the recent Training Seminar in Chester, will start with a discussion on how decorated papers and decorative techniques have played a large part in his design binding work over the years. Stephen will then demonstrate the making of: paste papers, salt papers, hand painted papers, craquele calf, and reconstituted leather parings. In the afternoon Stephen will show us how he uses one of the above when he makes a quarter leather dropback box.

The workshop will be held in the upstairs hall at the Congregational Chapel, Kelly Street, Kentish Town, NW1. The entrance to the venue is between 34 and 36 Kelly St and there is limited car parking at the rear of the building on Kentish Town Road, near the corner with Prince of Wales Road. Tea and coffee are available throughout the day.

30th October 2010 - Chris Rowlatt - Book Edge Marbling

This one day workshop will offer a brief introduction to marbling as well as the skills and experiences needed to be able to decorate book edges with marbling using acrylic inks. A brief explanation of the aims of the course is followed by the recipes and methodology for their preparation. Students will create three samplers that will explain the methods used for creating some of the standard patterns found in traditional marbling.

The course aims to introduce the skills and give the necessary information required for successful book edge marbling. Skills covered are: size making, ink preparation, efficient print making, book edge preparation, edge dipping, and using trindles (if time). At the end of the course, the student should have some confidence in their marbling abilities as well as having achieved some decorated book edges.

The tutor will have all equipment required available e.g. trays, drying rack, combs, ink pots and dipsticks, etc and also plenty of book blocks for experimentation and practice. Notes on marbling will be given to each participating student.

PLEASE NOTE: There is an additional materials charge of £15 per member, which should be paid to the tutor on the day

Please bring:
- A few sewn unrounded book blocks
- A laced in boards book that has been rounded and backed.
- Don't be too ambitious as to size.
- If you have a pair or pairs of trindles, please bring them.
- Apron/overall
- An open mind

Numbers will be strictly limited to 16 for this practical workshop, and will be allocated on a first come first served basis - places will be reserved once payment is received!

The workshop will be held in room C32 of Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. The nearest Tube station is Lambeth North. The cafeteria will be open.

13th November 2010 - Arthur Green - Board Attachment

Arthur first studied bookbinding at Manchester Metropolitan University where he received a BA (hons) in Graphic Design. Following five years working in various London binderies he went to Camberwell College of Art, gaining a Post Graduate Diploma in Conservation. Arthur then undertook internships at the Leather Conservation Centre and the British Library. He is currently working full time as a conservator at the Oxford Conservation Consortium.

The workshop will be split into two halves. In the morning Arthur will give an overview of the problems faced by both book conservators and bookbinders when repairing loose and detached book boards. The morning's presentation will aim to give an overview of the main tried and tested techniques that are used to re-attach boards. The focus of the presentation will be on explaining the strengths and limitations of each approach and when they are appropriate, rather than a step by step guide.

The afternoon session will consist of two short practical demonstrations of board re-attachment techniques. The first will be 'joint tacketing' given by Arthur, the second will be a demonstration of 'board slotting'. This will be given by Victoria Stevens - fellow Conservator at the Oxford Conservation Consortium.

Due to the space of the venue numbers for this workshop will be limited to 16 and will be allocated on a first come first served basis - places will be reserved once payment is received!

The workshop will be held at the Oxford Conservation Consortium, Grove Cottage, St Cross Street, Oxford, OX13TX. The studio can be found behind Magdalen College, on the corner where Longwall Street meets St Cross Road.

All workshops start at 10.30am (unless otherwise indicated) and finish at 3.00pm, with a break for lunch. If you would like to attend any of the workshops or visits then please indicate which ones on the slip below. The fee for each event is £6.00 for Society of Bookbinders members and £12.00 for non-members.

Workshops with limited numbers are usually oversubscribed so please book early to avoid disappointment. If you have booked and find you can't attend please do give us notice, no matter how late this may be - we can always re-allocate your place to someone else.

Booking forms are available from:

Ray Newberry, SoB Regional Treasurer
Silverwood, 8 Wildwood Close, Woking, Surrey, GU22 8PL
ray.newberry@ntlworld.com

Bookbinding Courses in Gloucestershire

All ability Courses/Workshops in New or Repair Binding

2010 Workshops

Workshop Costs:
£37.50 for 1 day
£70.00 for 2 days
£105.00 for 3 days

Chipping Camden - 10.00 - 16.00
OCTOBER - Thurs 14th & Fri 15th

£145.00 for the 4 weeks or £37.50 per week

John Pursey from Hewits will be visiting us during the courses and workshops

For further details and to enrol please contact Anne Weare 01285 760328

The School for Bookbinding Arts, Winchester, VA

The school is committed to providing quality training in the craft of hand bookbinding. Its ongoing series of two-day workshops is designed to teach techniques that are immediately useful to the student as well as to create a solid foundation of skills for further bookbinding study. The curriculum includes both basic and advanced courses that are geared toward the needs of book dealers, collectors and anyone interested in learning the art of hand bookbinding. Each workshop features demonstrations of the techniques being taught coupled with ample supervised practice time for the student. A complete package of printed notes accompanies each of the workshops to aid the student in assimilating the body of information being presented.

Workshops are taught in the studios of Cat Tail Run Hand Bookbinding near Winchester, Virginia. Cat Tail Run Hand Bookbinding is a fully operational hand bookbinding and book restoration facility established in 1991 by Jill Deiss. Instructors for THE SCHOOL FOR BOOKBINDING ARTS include Jill Deiss, Dee Evetts, Susan McCabe and Bill Deiss.

Foundation Level Course

Beginning Cloth Binding Restoration: This course teaches a wide variety of skills that are immediately useful for the repair of cloth bindings and also serves as a foundation for later courses. Techniques taught include: repairing damaged corners, endcaps and joints on cloth bindings; toning of discolorations; and minor paper repair techniques. Limited to 9 students. $235

Beginning Leather Binding Restoration: Students will learn various treatments for leather bindings including repairs for damaged corners, endaps, and joints. Also included are techniques for polishing and improving the condition of leather surfaces. $235

Advanced Cloth Binding Restoration: Learn the professional technique for restoring a cloth binding using original boards and spine. Requires Beginning Cloth Binding Restoration for participation. Limited to 7 students. $235

Advanced Leather Binding Restoration: The leather reback is the companion repair to the cloth reback but for leather bindings. All portions of the original binding are retained in this professional restoration. Techniques for thinning and paring leather will be featured in this workshop. Requires Beginning Leather Binding Restoration for participation. Limited to 7 students. $235

New Cloth Bindings: Two styles of new bindings will be taught to enable students to put covers on books that have lost their original bindings. Introduction to book titling will be featured as well as methods for endsheet attachment. Limited to 9 students. $235

Clamshell Box Construction: Students will learn the craft of creating custom-fit clamshell boxes. Limited to 9 students. $235

Paper Marbling [Beginning & Advanced]: Students will learn many traditional marbled patterns as well as how to set up their own marbling studios. Inquire for course fee.

Further information from:
540-662-2683
www.CatTailRun.com
email: info@cattailrun.com

Learn to bind in Surrey

For those wishing to learn bookbinding, The Otter Bindery offers classes, for all levels from beginners upwards.  For further details please check the website www.otterbookbinding.com or telephone 01932 845976.  The classes diary can be found here

Subjects covered include paper repair, book restoration, gold finishing, box making and fine binding, contemporary styles, traditional styles and wooden bookbinding.

Otter Bindery workshops are available to tutor groups, schools, art centres, businesses and institutions.

Bookbinding and Restoration Workshops, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

On Saturdays, throughout the year. Enquiries to douglas.mitchell@bl.uk

An opportunity to bring along your own books etc. and learn the basic skills of Restoration and Bookbinding. 11am. 5.30pm with a 1hour lunch.

These courses will be held at: The Castle Theatre, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 1XA For further details, please e-mail Doug Mitchell.

CBL Ascona, Switzerland

The Association centro del bel libro in Ascona is the parent institution of an internationally known and recognised technical school with the specialised areas of Bookbinding and Design and Book and Paper Conservation. The Association exists for the continued development and ever higher qualification of its instructors in both areas. Competitions and exhibitions help inform the public about their activities and expand public awareness of the book. The Association makes it possible for experts in related fields and for interested laypeople to acquire knowledge and skills pertaining to the book through special courses of instruction. The Association is a not for profit organisation. Its departments assure the smooth functioning of the school and an especially well organised office assists course participants with their stay in Ascona. The Directorate, among other duties, is charged with attracting new supporting members for the Association to en sure the continued work and development of the School. Should you be in agreement with the stated goals of the Association - we would be pleased to welcome you as a new member!

Department of Bookbinding and Design - The study areas of Bookbinding and Design offer discerning bookbinders the opportunity of technical and creative challenges. Course participants have the opportunity to further their qualifications through learning internationally recognised methods and techniques, are able to hone their skills and increase their knowledge, evaluate themselves and be inspired by colleagues. They will exchange ideas and find paths in creativity and through self reflection; paths which open up by being away from job demands and daily stress, away from routine, and the pressures of time and expectations of productivity. The annually changing course offerings are continually enhanced by timely developments to expand students' depth of understanding. They include classic hand bookbinding techniques, such as the French full leather binding, the Bradel technique, as well as hand gilding. Another area of program concentration is the contemporary design of bookbindings, in which design, technique and material complement each other and fulfil the functional and qualitative aspects of a book.

Department Book and Paper Conservation - The study of book and paper conservation at the centro del bel libro ascona assures further education specifically for book and paper restorers and delivers timely, inclusive and internationally recognised competencies in theory and practical applications. Scientific bases of restoration, restoration ethics, as well as documentation and decision making are encouraged and fostered in order to increase the knowledge of course participants in these areas. The opportunity to engage in dialogue in related disciplines, support and evaluation of innovation, and most of all development of practical skills to assure correct restoration and conservation measures - all are addressed in this context. The exchange of ideas among experts, and the addition of highly specialised guest lecturers provide the best conditions for exploring all relevant subjects in depth. Highly qualified teachers, a pleasant study and work environment, course participants from countries world wide, and the much renowned southern joie de vivre facilitate learning, ignite the desire to learn and communicate, and reward the student with improved self confidence. Building on these facts, it becomes an easy task to develop conventions for the protection of our cultural heritage, the book - a task which the centro del bel libro ascona has set itself and which it fulfils.

Further information regarding courses programs can be found on the school's web site at: www.cbl-ascona.ch

London College of Printing, London, UK

BA Hons Book Arts and Design- a course designed to develop a creative and innovative approach to the art and craft of designing and making books, as functional artifacts and art pieces.

This programme of study is unique in the United Kingdom, being the only course available specifically in book arts & crafts. The course is spread over three years, year one is mostly skills based and covers a variety of bookart areas, year two includes a range of electives allowing the student to focus on certain areas in detail. This year also includes work experience. Year three includes 2 major practical projects and a dissertation in a related area. The course starts in year one as tutor led and gradually becomes student led.

During the course visits are arranged to museums and galleries, field trips abroad and the possibility of engaging in the college exchange programme. A range of methods delivers the course: e.g. practical demonstration, lectures, seminars and tutorials.

Bookart projects are practically based and detailed feedback is always given on student's work either through assessment sheets or in tutorial. Written projects are required in the Cultural Studies and Personal and Professional Development modules.

Here is an outline of each year

Year 1 - Modules include basic skills in Printmaking, Craft bookbinding, craft printing (letterpress and screen), visual studies (drawing & illustration), photography and creative bookarts. Computer studies (computer-aided design), Cultural studies and Professional development. (CS & PPD run throughout the course). Year one is intense and requires attendance over 3/4 days.

Year 2 - Modules include advanced bookart structures and fine print production, electives include advanced printmaking & illustration, design bookbinding, artist's books, historical / oriental structures, conservation techniques and CAD etc. Students may now focus on particular area or specialism and drop areas they do not wish to pursue. PPD not only helps arrange work experience, but sets up student exhibitions in various galleries and the London Artists Bookfair each year.

Year 3 - This year is assessed over 2 major projects and 2 lesser projects. You will be expected to produce a dissertation of around 5000/6000 words and produce a Major Elective Study, which is assessed by exhibition. Projects are student led, this year of the course using a supervision/tutorial system for major projects. Students also set up their own exhibition in a private gallery during this final year. Technical help and advice is always available and most tutors operate an "open door" policy for students who need one-to-one help.

Exit Profile - Over 70% of graduates find employment in areas related to the course programme,(2002). Some have gone into teaching (PGTC) some onto post graduate education, (MA Bookarts, MA Fine Art, MA Product Design and MA Publishing etc.)

This art and design course using as it does a range of 3D graphics and the book as a medium has a wide range of applications. Graduates work as makers in bookbinding, printers in Fine press (Limited Edition), printmakers, illustrators, book designers using the latest computer applications, in art departments for publishers, paper engineering (pop-ups), board-game and package design, book & card production and as exhibiting book artists.

Students have exhibited to acclaim in major galleries and won international awards in France, UK, USA and Holland. This (undergraduate) course has been generally recognised as being the best available in this field. Resources are second to none, fully equipped workshops coupled with experienced staff all of whom practice within their specialism, professionally, (e.g. printmaking is taught by Tessa Holmes, exhibiting printmaker and Visual studies by the artist Daphne Plessner)

Prospective applicants are encouraged to visit the college. For full curriculum details and further information, please contact Mike Brunwin at: d.plessner@lcc.arts.ac.uk or telephone on 0207 514 6500 (ex.6660) or write to:

UCAS entry codes;
route A Linst L65 WW27 Ba/BArts
Route B Linst L65 EW 27 Ba/BArts

London College of Communication (formally London College of Printing) School of Printing & Publishing, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB

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