Saturday 10 July 2021
9.30am – 4.30pm
Members $60 Non-Members $100
Category Archives: artist books
Suminagashi – 8 May 2021
When: Saturday 8 May 2021, 9.30am – 12.30pm
Where: Room 3 Hughes Community Centre, Hughes, ACT
Vicki, Ros and Nicky will demonstrate Suminagashi, also known as Japanese marbling.
A technique of decorating papers that has been practised in Japan for centuries.
Like a meandering stream or a feather floating on a gentle breeze, we will let nature form the patterns.
Use as end papers, book covers or backgrounds for printing.
Materials provided for people to try this technique.
What to bring
- Container to put damp papers in to take home
- Pencil, pad and camera to take notes
See you all for a relaxing morning of Suminagashi.
Introduction to Bookbinding – workshop Full, reserve list
Make a Pricking Cradle – Sat 13 March
When: Saturday 13 March 2021, 9.30am – 12.30pm
Where: Room 3 Hughes Community Centre, Hughes, ACT
Vicki will demonstrate how to make a pricking cradle so you too can bind in the bush.
A pricking cradle enables you to make perfectly position holes through the spine folds of sections in preparation for sewing. It is simple to make. It packs flat for easy storage and you can take it anywhere.
Materials (pre-cut) will be provided for people to construct a cradle during the morning.
What to bring
- Cutting mat
- Craft knife
- Bone folder
- Metal ruler
- PVA Glue
- Glue Brush and/or sponge roller
- Pencil
- Dividers if you have them
See you all at our first drop-in for 2021.
Drop-in Sat, 19 September, SALE
When: Sat, September 19
From: 9.30 am – 12.00 pm
Where: Room 3 Hughes Community Centre, Hughes, ACT
Great opportunity to find bargains on bookbinding and book-related items including:
- Leather, bookcloth, & suedex. Papers – plain and Japanese decorated papers in many colours
- Brushes – all shapes and sizes
- Hand tools – bone folders, sanders, sanding rolls, tweezers, rulers, squares, you think of it and it will be there on the sale day
- Hand tools for decorations – set of line pallets, large brass roll, small brass tools
- Small A4 board cutter
- Bench hook, many weights and lots of pressing boards
- Books on books – many technical books on binding techniques, typography, artist’s books
Cash only
For more information, contact CCBG at canberrabookbinders@gmail.com
SEE YOU AT THE SALE!
Sketch book, no stitching
Saturday 14 March 2020
9.30am – 12.30pm, Room 3 Hughes Community Centre, Hughes, ACT
Teresa and Wendy will demonstrate how to make this sketch book.
It is a robust A5 hardcover book made with very little equipment. It opens out flat, pages can be removed and replaced. No sewing and very little adhesive. It has been tested by young children, artists, and others over the past few months and seems to stand up well.
Materials will be provided so all of us can make this book after the demonstration to take home.
What to bring
- Cutting mat
- Craft knife
- Bone folder
- Metal ruler
- Glue stick
- Pencil
See you all at our first drop-in for 2020.
$5 each to go to room hire.
Secret Belgian Binding with tutor Guy Begbie
Cancelled
Guy Begbie will be in Canberra tutoring this two-day workshop in April. This workshop is designed for participants with or without bookbinding experience.
Date: Saturday 4 – Sunday 5 April 2020, 9.30am to 4.30pm both days at
Venue: Bookarts Bindery, Canberra
Fee: $240 Deposit of $100 required to secure a place.
All materials will be provided for the workshop.
What to bring: TBA
Please email: canberrabookbinders@gmail.com to secure a place.
Participants will have the opportunity to make a hardback book that has an elegant and distinctive thread pattern of sewing.
This is used to lace the front and back covers to the cover spine piece. The cover is made up of three separate components. The sewing is visible on the outside of the book. Measures are taken in the binding construction, to hide the interior thread on the inside of the covers.
The book block/pages are made up of signature folios that are attached in the sewing process to the inside spine of the cover. Learn variation in page structuring in each of the page sections with some gate folds and throw out pages. This binding is robust and durable and allows the book to lie flat when open.
Guy Begbie is a UK based interdisciplinary artist printmaker, bookbinder, independent bookbinding & book arts workshop provider and an associate art and design lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Guy exhibited his work in ‘Code X: Contemporary Fine Binding’ at Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre, Canberra, 9th February-27th March 2017.
25 – 27 October, 2019, Australian National Bookbinders Conference
Tickets still on sale at https://bind19.com.au/ 25 – 27 October, 2019 International Presenters: Kathy Abbott, Michael Burke, Nicky Oliver, Dieter Räder, Philippa Räder and Dominic Riley.
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Drop-in Saturday 14 July
New in 2018 Drop-in Saturday 14 July 9.00 – 12.30, Room 3 Hughes Community Centre, Hughes, ACT. Come along, be with other binders and share and learn together. Type, tooling and titling. Be shown and assisted people in the use … Continue reading →