Spring - 2003 - Volume 15

Study Opportunities

The City Lit Bookbinding Summer School

An Album with its Own Slipcase
Date: 8th July - 10th July 2003
Tuition: £60.00 (Conc. £30.00)
Level: All levels
Tutor: Kathy Abbott
This course shows you (1) how to make a book which is used to store documents such as photographs, letters, postcards or ephemera, and (2) how to make a cloth-covered slipcase for the book in order to protect it and to keep it dust-free. The book, or album, will be covered with cloth and decorated paper, and you will learn how to make it in such a way as to allow adequate space (or compensation) for the thickness of the items which it will hold. You will learn important basic principles that will enable you to practise further on your own.

A Leather Notebook
Date 11th July 2003
Tuition: £25.00 (Conc. £15.00)
Level: All levels
Tutor: Jen Lindsay
This is a small book with a flexible leather cover. The pages are attached to the cover with long stitches of coloured thread, which are visible on the spine as a decorative feature. These are excellent small sketchbooks or notebooks as they open to lie completely flat, they slip readily into a pocket or bag and they are very easy to make at home.

A Coptic Book
Date: 15th - 17th July 2003
Tuition: £60.00 (Conc. £30.00)
Level: All levels
Tutor: Jen Lindsay
This course shows you how to make a leather-bound book based on a method used to bind Coptic manuscripts which was established by the seventh or eighth centuries AD. You will learn how to prepare the boards, sew the text-block and attach the boards with a linked (Coptic) stitch, sew similar (Coptic) endbands, cover the book with leather and make and attach the leather loops and toggles which hold the book closed. This course is appropriate for anyone interested in the early history of books, or for those who would like a fresh approach to making books.

Gold Tooling
Date: 21st - 25th July 2003
Tuition: £98.00 (Conc. £49.00)
Level: All levels
Tutor: Tracey Rowledge
This course is an introduction to the technique of tooling with gold leaf on leather, and can also be a refresher course for those who wish to build on some previous experience of the subject. Gold tooling (also known as 'finishing') can seem a particularly difficult skill to acquire, but the understanding of materials and techniques which you will gain from this course will give you the confidence and the ability to practise further on your own. If you have done this course before, you may wish to return to consolidate your skills or to work on a specific project.

Make A Finishing Tool
Date: 26th July 2003
Tuition: £25.00 (Conc. £15.00)
Level: All levels
Tutor: Tracey Rowledge Finishing tools are the brass tools that are used for impressing, by hand, lettering or decoration on malleable surfaces such as leather, paper or wood. This course shows you how to make a tool of your own design (of a simple shape) from brass stock or by re-cutting a damaged tool.

For all of these courses, please ensure that you obtain the list of materials and equipment that you will need. A fee for materials will be payable.

Location:
Room 21
The City Lit.
6 Bolt Court
Fleet Street
London
EC4A 3DQ

Course outlines are available from:
Tel:+44 (0) 20 7405 0931
E-mail: visualarts@cityIit.ac.uk

Residential Courses at Urchfont Manor

Bookbinding: Repair & Conservation
Date: 30th June - 4th July 2003
Tutor: Maureen Duke
General Topics plus special topic: Deciding upon your techniques and materials.

Bookbinding: Repair & Conservation
Date: 18th - 22nd August 2003
Tutor: Maureen Duke
General Topics plus special topic: Endpapers

Bookbinding: Repair & Conservation
Date: 27th - 31st October 2003
Tutor: Maureen Duke
General Topics plus special topic: Library Styles

Further information on these courses is available from the

Secretary
Urchfont Manor College
Urchfont
Devizes,
WILTSHIRE, SN10 4RG, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 1380 840495
Fax: +44 (0) 1380 840005
E-mail:urchfont@wccyouth.org.uk

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