Come and say hello to us at Crafting Connections.
Sat 28 March, 10am – 12pm at the Fitters Workshop, 21 Wentworth Ave, Kingston.
View a display of members’ work and watch demonstrations of bookbinding techniques.
Category Archives: contemporary binding
GUILD 24 on YouTube
GUILD 24 – an exhibition of recent works by members of the Canberra Craft Bookbinders’ Guild has wrapped up. There were 19 exhibitors and 38 bindings/constructions. If you or others would like to look at all those wonderful books again, then that is possible now and into the future.
A YouTube video (4.51 mins and a catalogue, have been created as artifacts of the exhibition.
Access it via GUILD 24 YouTube or search Canberra Bookbinders YouTube Guild 24.
View the online catalogue via National Library of Australia, TROVE.
GUILD 24 – exhibition 6 Sept – 2 Oct
GUILD 24 – an exhibition of recent works by members of the Canberra Craft Bookbinders’ Guild.
19 exhibitors and 38 bindings/constructions of fine, contemporary, sculptural and artist creations.
6 September – 2 October, 2024.
More about the exhibition at Home – Libraries ACT
Civic Library opening hours – Monday to Friday 10am – 5.30pm – Saturday 10am to 4pm
Guild 24 – Exhibition entry details for members
The CCBG Committee is so pleased to announce the entry details for Guild 24, our members only exhibition to be held Mezzanine level of the Civic Library in Canberra.
Find all the information on the website under Events and news. Deadline for entries 8 August 2024.
Image of a few of the 36 works in Guild 22 taken during ‘bump in’.
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.
Hot Foiling – Sat 14 November
Hot Foiling
When: Sat 14 November 2020 (rescheduled from 8 May 2020), 9.30am – 12.30pm,
Where: Room 3 Hughes Community Centre, Hughes, ACT
Add decoration to your work using finishing tools to blind emboss or add a touch of colour to your design with coloured foil.
Sally will demonstrate hot foiling and blind embossing.
- hand finishing tools (decorative and type) along with a range of coloured foils for people to use,
- type that can be set into a type holder and
- cloth and leather off cuts for people to use.
Come along, say hello and try your hand at hot foiling.
Hinged Parchment Binding with tutor Barbara Schmelzer
The Hinged Parchment Binding is a full parchment binding using a combination of the classic German Parchment Binding and Edgard’s Polycarbonate Binding.
You will be dying and decorating your parchment, learn to sew the bookblock onto parchment tapes, round and line the spine and create hinges on the bookblock. The boards are prepared, covered and decorated separately from the bookblock. You will learn how to sand boards for bibliophile bindings, cover them with parchment, make the hinges on the boards, infill them and prepare and attach doublures.
Cost: $650 (Material fee depending on usage of parchment, paper etc.)
Date: April 18-22, 2020 (5 days/Saturday to Wednesday), 9.00am – 5.00 pm
Venue: Unit 4/49-51 Mitchell Road, Brookvale, NSW 2100
A $150 deposit is due on enrolment with the remainder to be paid one month before course commencement.
Please enrol directly with: Barbara Schmelzer
phone: 02 9905 3117 or 0450 422 098
e-mail: barbara@barbaraschmelzer.com.au
website: www.barbaraschmelzer.com.au
Facebook: Barbara Schmelzer
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.
Continue reading →Section Sewing Saturday
All familiar with www. but for binders this Saturday it is sss. Section Sewing Saturday 14 September, 9.30am to 12.30pm, Rm 3, Hughes Community Centre. The morning will start at 9.30. Many binding styles involve stitching, so your committee has … Continue reading →
Drop-in Sat 11 Nov
Embossing 9.00 – 12.30, Room 3 Hughes Community Centre, Hughes, ACT. Be shown and assisted in the technique of creating either raised or recessed relief images and designs in paper Come along be with other binders and share and learn … Continue reading →