Both sessions of the popular Biblio Tech workshop in a week-long intensive.
This workshop is being offered by San Francisco Center for the Book. Members of Hand Bookbinders of California receive a discount.
Dates: Monday, April 24-Friday, April 28
9:30 am-5:30 pm
Instructor: Karen Hanmer
Venue: San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA
This week-long workshop begins with a hands-on lecture on a set of approximately twenty-five models of various historical and modern binding structures, with a focus on methods of board attachment.
Students will then create ten small binding structure models from the larger set. These models will remain unfinished so the sewing and board attachment are visible for future reference.
Structures include: Tacketing of a thick single signature into a leather wrapper, Crossed Structure, Sewn Boards, Laced-on boards, German Case Binding with double fan adhesive text block, Ethiopian, Medieval, Colonial American Scaleboard, Split Board, Non-Adhesive Paper Case
NOTE: This is a fast-paced workshop for students who have some experience with traditional binding. Students should be comfortable sewing on a variety of supports and have successfully made books on their own outside a workshop setting.
For more information and to register:
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA
United States