Saturday 26 March 2022
9.30am – 4.30pm
Members $70 Non-Members $110
Category Archives: workshops
Intro to Bookbinding 10 July – workshop Full, reserve list
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.
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.
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.
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
Workshop – Case binding with decorative stitching
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 →
Workshop – Concertinas and gelatine printing
A day exploring the endless possibilities of concertina books and gelatine printing. Saturday 11 November 2017, 9.00am – 5.00pm, in the Hall, Hughes Community Centre Please register interest admin@canberrabookbinders.org.au Cost $110 ($70 for Guild members) Skill level: Beginners Participants will … Continue reading →