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
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’.
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
See you all at our first drop-in for 2021.
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.
Come along, say hello and try your hand at hot foiling.
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
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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