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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Thursday 9th August
  Delegates may take one of the following excursions, which are free. Fuller descriptions of these excursions will be given in the joining instructions. Buses will leave promptly at the times shown
13.30 Castle Howard
• Shandy Hall
14.30  Archives & conservation department of York Minster
• Castle Museum
• Jorvik Viking Centre
• Conducted tour of the city walls
15.15 • Borthwick Library conservation department (no coach)
18.15 Conference Reception & President's Welcome
20.30 - 21.30 David Pearson ­ The interest of ‘ordinary’ bindings
Friday 10th August 
09.15 - 10.30 Eleanore Ramsey:
Making a box with a magnetic clasp
Lori Sauer:
Stub Sewing
Alain Taral & Sün Evrard:
Wooden bindings
Paul Johnson:
Book arts in schools
11.00 - 12.15 Doug Mitchell:
Endbands within a
conservation context
Derek Hood:
Methods of trade & tabletop: inlays & onlays
Hedi Kyle:
Unlimited structures for artists books
David Dorning:
Stain removal methods compared: bleaching & chelating agents
14.00 - 15.15 Trevor Lloyd:
Finishing an Eighteenth Century spine
Peter Jones:
Book structure, a personal exploration
15.45 - 17.00 Doug Mitchell:
Endbands within a
conservation context
Lori Sauer:
Stub Sewing
Hedi Kyle:
Unlimited structures for artists books
Clare Prince:
Japanese papermaking: technique & variations
17.45 - 19.00 Shopping Evening
20.30 - 21.30 Michael Wilcox:
Making and using one’s own finishing tools and blocks
Saturday 11th August 
09.00 - 10.15  James Brockman:
Innovative forwarding techniques and paring for a full leather binding
Bob Holroyd:
Traditional edge gilding
10.45 - 12.00  James Brockman (continued):
Innovative forwarding techniques and paring for a full leather binding
Edwin Heim:
The use of plastic materials
in hand bookbinding
13.30 - 14.40    Mirjam Foot:
Skilled hands and inventive heads – binders at work
Paul Delrue:
'My Tudor Style'
15.15 - 16.30 Eleanore Ramsey:
Making a box with a magnetic clasp
Derek Hood:
Methods of trade & tabletop: inlays & onlays
Alain Taral & Sün Evrard:
Wooden bindings
Elizabeth Neville:
The Treatment of iron gall inks
17.00 - 18.00    National AGM
19.15 Reception & Conference Dinner at the National Railway Museum
followed by Competition Prizegiving and Auction