5th October 2004
Designer Bookbinders - Tuesday Lecture

Clare Prince - Papermaking in Japan: techniques and variations for making some conservation and decorative papers
18.30 - The Art Workers Guild, 6, Queens Square, London WC2 (Holborn Tube)
£4.00 admission (£2.00 for full time students)
Further information is available at: www.designerbookbinders.org.uk

2nd November 2004
Designer Bookbinders - Tuesday Lecture

Michelle Brown - Medieval Books: their bindings and their functions
18.30 - The Art Workers Guild, 6, Queens Square, London WC2 (Holborn Tube)
£4.00 admission (£2.00 for full time students)
Further information is available at: www.designerbookbinders.org.uk

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 at the Providence-Biltmore Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island List of Speakers:

• Mark Anderson Half-Leather Trade Binding
• Peter Geraty Edge Decoration Techniques
• Kiyoshi Imai Jamanes Pouch/Four Hole Binding
• Adam Larsson Medieval Limp Vellum/Leather Structure
• Nancy Southworth Conservation of Historic Bindings

Further details are available from the Guild's web site at: palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw/index.shtml

7th December 2004
Designer Bookbinders - Tuesday Lecture

Ron King - "Tabernacle": Hole, Horse and Hell-box, a retired printer's viewpoint
18.30 - The Art Workers Guild, 6, Queens Square, London WC2 (Holborn Tube)
£4.00 admission (£2.00 for full time students)
Further information is available at: www.designerbookbinders.org.uk

11th January 2005
Designer Bookbinders - Tuesday Lecture

Sue Hufton - Making a Mighty Manuscript Book: Writing the St. John's Bible in the 21st Century
18.30 - The Art Workers Guild, 6, Queens Square, London WC2 (Holborn Tube)
£4.00 admission (£2.00 for full time students)
Further information is available at: www.designerbookbinders.org.uk

1st February 2005
Designer Bookbinders - Tuesday Lecture

Kathy Abbot, Midori Kunikata-Cockram and Rachel Ward-Sale - Three Binders, Three Styles: individual; approaches to bookbinders
18.30 - The Art Workers Guild, 6, Queens Square, London WC2 (Holborn Tube)
£4.00 admission (£2.00 for full time students)
Further information is available at: www.designerbookbinders.org.uk

1st March 2005
Designer Bookbinders - Tuesday Lecture

Martin Frost - Book Art on the Edge: A brief History of fore-edge decoration
18.30 - The Art Workers Guild, 6, Queens Square, London WC2 (Holborn Tube)
£4.00 admission (£2.00 for full time students)
Further information is available at: www.designerbookbinders.org.uk

18th - 21st August 2005
*Society of Bookbinders Biennial Education and Trading Conference, Competition and Supplier's Fair

To be held at the University of Bath Provisional List of Speakers:

• Wes Baker The history and working/tooling of Russia Leather
• Glenn Bartley Leather Joints & Doublures
• Tony Cains Repair Treatments for vellum manuscripts
• Lester Capon Leather Covering
• Julie Chen Artists' Books
• Chris Clarkson 15th Century Spanish Boxed Bindings
• Mark Cockram Bradel Bindings
• Neil Holroyd Traditional Edge Gilding
• Katinka Keus Conservation Bindings in Carton
• Tini Miura Onlay Techniques
• Ann Muir Paper Marbling
• Nicholas Pickwoad Early Paper Bindings 1480-1800
• Dominic Riley Sewn Boards
• Geert van Daal Self Heating Finishing Tools
• Tony Ward Managing a small bookbinding business

Bindings entered for the SoB International Bookbinding Competition will be displayed during the Conference and the winners of the different categories will be announced at the Conference Dinner.

Full details regarding this event are available on the Society's web site at: www.societyofbookbinders.com

*We will have a trade stand at these events.