Spring - 2007 - Volume 23

Dates For Your Diary

 

29th April 2007
*Bookbinders Fair Belgium at Municipal Halls, Sint Niklaas (near Antwerp)

Further details are available from the organisers Web Site at: www.boekbindbeurs.nl

9th - 12th August 2007
* The Society of Bookbinders' sixteenth biennial Education & Training Conference University of York, UK

List of Presenters

• Julie Biggs (USA) - Bleaching The treatment of iron gall inks
• James Brockman - Forwarding techniques including paring & covering
• Paul Delrue - 'My Tudor style'
• Mirjam Foot - 'Skilled hands & inventive heads': binders at work
• Edwin Heim (Switzerland) -Bindings in acrylglas, polycarbonate & acetate
• Robert Holroyd - Edge gilding
• Derek Hood - 'Methods of Trade & Tabletop': inlays and onlays
• Paul Johnson - Book arts for schools
• Peter Jones - Book structure: a personal exploration
• Hedi Kyle (USA) - Unlimited Structures for Artists' Books
• Trevor Lloyd - Finishing an Eighteenth Century spine Douglas Mitchell Endbands within a conservation context
• David Pearson - The interest of 'ordinary' bindings Clare Prince Japanese paper: technique & variations
• Eleanore Ramsey (USA) -Making a box with a magnetic clasp Lori Sauer Stub sewing Alain Taral & Sün Evrard (France) Wooden bindings
• Michael Wilcox (Canada) - Making and using one's own finishing tools and blocks

Further details are available from the SoB Web Site at: www.societyofbookbinders.com

18th - 21st October 2007
*The Guild of Bookworkers Standards of Excellence Seminar, Dallas, Texas

Further details will be available soon from their web site at :palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw

3rd - 4th November 2007
*UK Fine Press Book Fair Saturday 11.00 - 18.00 Sunday 10.00 - 17.00 Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, UK

Specialist fair for collectors of private and fine press books; includes exhibitors from the Fine Press Book Association, plus binders, paper makers, suppliers, etc.

*J. Hewit & Sons Ltd will have a trade stand at these events.