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Drum Leaf Binding, 12 July 2025 – Fully booked

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Transit (Orange) by Avril Makula

Drum Leaf Binding – suitable for all levels

Drum leaf binding is an adhesive book structure made up of single folded folios.

Pages are ‘drummed’ at the spine and foredge, then the spine and cover are attached. Only one side of each folio is visible when the book is bound, making it a great structure for binding prints, drawings and the like, when only one side of the paper has been used. This is a book with no stitching, allowing full page spreads uninterrupted by rows of thread in the centre folds. It can be made from a wide range of paper types. This binding style lies quite flat and is fairly easy to construct.

This book structure is great for binding existing artwork, or you can also use blank pages readying it for making your mark.

Tutor: Avril Makula – A book artist, book designer, bookbinder and owner of Alphabet City Press. In her current practice, she prints and binds books using both new and old technologies, takes discarded books and restructures them into new forms, and makes prints using letter shapes. While much of her work explores the book as art using typography, geometry and colour as content, she finds herself increasingly influenced by the natural

To book a place, please register at canberrabookbinders@gmail.com

A list of what to bring in your kit will be provided following registration.

Date:     Saturday 12 July 2025

Time:    9.30am – 4.30pm

Venue: Room 3, Hughes Community Centre, Wisdom St, Hughes, ACT

Fee: $120 for Canberra Craft Bookbinders Guild members ($160 for non-members).

Cancellation policy

Refunds are given on any cancellations up to 12 hours before the course and for substantial grounds on the day of the course.

Secret Belgian Binding with tutor Guy Begbie

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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.

Workshop – Concertinas and gelatine printing

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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 →