Category Archives: contemporary binding

Make a Pricking Cradle – Sat 13 March

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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

Canberra Craft Bookbinders' Guild

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

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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

Drop-in Sat 11 Nov

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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 →

Drop-in Saturday 14 July

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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 →

Workshop – Case binding with decorative stitching

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Waiting list Learn to make a case bound book with decorative stitching. Saturday 21 July 2018,  9.00am – 5.00pm, in the Hall, Hughes Community Centre Cost $110 ($70 for Guild members)   To book a place, please register at  admin@canberrabookbinders.org.au … Continue reading →