Spring - 2004 - Volume 17

Dates For Your Diary

7th - 8th May 2004
*Society of Bookbinders - Training Standard Seminar and AGM Birmingham, England.
Speakers to include:

• Bernard Middleton Facsimile title pages
• Maureen Duke: There is another way
• Paul Delrue The painted edge
• George Davidson End papers
• Michael Burke: Guarding Sections for re-sewing
• Kate Hore Headbanding
• Dominic Riley The Cambridge panel Gene Mahon A limp vellum binding
• Stephen Conway Alternative methods of paper decoration

For further details and booking information, go to the Society's web site at: www.societyofbookbinders.com

17th May 2004
Hand Bookbinders of California are hosting a talk by David Lanning, titled,
'The Brief History of Bookbinding Leather and a Virtual Tour of the Hewit Tannery in Scotland
6:00 pm at the Book Club of California, Fifth Floor, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco. The talk is free and open to the public. All are welcome! Refreshments. Further details available from Signa/Judy Houghteling: judy@signah.com or (415) 771 1743

20th May - 2nd July 2004
'In Flight' - An Exhibition of the Guild of Bookworkers
Schatten Gallery, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

16th July - 28th August 2004
'In Flight' - An Exhibition of the Guild of Bookworkers
Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, Illinois

4th - 5th September 2004
*L-4-Leather - a weekend of all things leather!
(To be held somewhere in West England)
A provisional program has been suggested which will include a Presentation by Hewits on leathers Modifying a spokeshave for leather paring and sharpening of tools. Demonstration of dyeing leathers and staining with aniline dyes. Historical techniques of sprinkling, staining and marbling. Tree calf. Plating and varnishing. Leather dressing. Demonstrations including, cutting out leather for covering, leather paring, covering full leather bindings, inlays and onlays, leather joints and doublures. Further details will be published soon in the 'Latest News' section of our web site.

11th November - 31st December 2004
'In Flight' - An Exhibition of the Guild of Bookworkers
Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio

11th - 14th November 2004
*The Guild of Bookworkers annual Standards of Excellence Seminar
will be held in Providence, Rhode Island
Details will follow in the next edition of Skin Deep

*We will have a trade stand at these events.