Exciting announcement.
Association of Book Crafts(NZ) have confirmed BIND25!
The conference will take place at the Auckland University of Technology(AUT) over the weekend of 12-14 September, 2025.
They are pleased to have this quality venue confirmed and now that they have the dates pinned down, planning can begin in earnest.
And there is much to organise!
At the beginning of April they will be calling for papers and workshops and also identifying the two keynote speakers. website abc-nz.org.nz
At our next meeting with Chris we will be taking the binding of a book (s) apart which is called ‘Pulling’.
When: Saturday 10 Sept 2022, 9.30am – 12.30pm
Where: Room 3, (COTA) Hughes Community Centre, Hughes, ACT.
Pulling books – taking the binding apart
One source of books to bind is old books pulled apart.
The best books to start with are ones that are section-sewn and hollow back case bound (you can see the ends of the sections and can see light down between the spine covering and the bookblock when you open the book out).
Also good are paperback books that are section-sewn with a glued paper spine (such as pre-1960s Penguins), ideally where the glue is starting to crack apart. Some section-sewn paperbacks have old cracking glue and can be gently scraped clean; more recent books are hot glued on the spine, but most of these are single sheet. Removing the hot glue is possible but not as easy as older glues, and single sheets are rarely as good to bind as sections.
Book sources: bookshelves; little street libraries; Lifeline and other book fairs; second hand bookshops.
What to bring:
During the morning we will explore:
Look forward to seeing you all there with your books!
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.
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