Sunday 26th April 2009
*Bookbinders Fair Belgium at Municipal Halls, Sint Niklaas (near Antwerp)
Further details
are available from the organisers Web Site at www.boekbindbeurs.nl
20th - 23rd August 2009
* The Society of Bookbinders' seventeenth biennial Education & Training Conference
University of Warwick, UK
List of Presenters
- Kathy Abbott Tomorrow's
Past - a modern approach to conservation bindings
- Cor Aerssens (Holland)
- The 'floating' and the 'standing' book - turn a book into a structure '
- Glenn Bartley - Decorative
techniques & covering with translucent vellum
- Carol Barton (USA) -
Paper engineering & pop-up books
- Edward Bayntun Coward
- The antiquarian book business
- Michelle Brown - Safeguarding
Scripture: the bindings of early medieval gospel book
- Lester Capon - Leather
Rebacking
- Stephen Conway - The
binding of the Highgrove Florilegium
- Nick Cowlishaw - A Cambridge
Panel George Davidson Various endpapers and their role
- Guy De Witte (Belgium)
- Conservation decisions - a case study
- Maureen Duke - Restoration
decisions in practice
- Don Glaister (USA) -
Book artist/design binder
- Chris Gibbs - Handmade
papers
- Yehuda Miklaf (Israel)
- K-118 bindings
- Anne-Marie Miller - Paper
conservation (a double session)
- Pascale Thérond (France)
- Gold finishing and onlays - ancient* and modern*
- Julian Thomas - George
Herbert, Gregynog special edition bindings
Further details
are available from the SoB Web Site at www.societyofbookbinders.com
29th - 31st October 2009
*The Guild of Bookworkers Standards of Excellence Seminar, San Francisco, California
Further details
will be available soon from their web site at: cool-palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw/
7th - 8th November 2009
*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 will have a stand at these events