Participants will be provided with marbling colours, paper and the equipment required to learn how to make basic patterns. These skills can then be developed to create many traditional and innovative decorated papers. Maximum number 14, Materials cost £15. Students should bring strips of newspaper for skimming (approx 2"x 14") and newspaper to put on the floor, a folding drying rack, an apron and wear comfortable old shoes and clothes. Acrylic paint will be used which does not come off…
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EAST ANGLIAN REGION Practice, they say, makes perfect but you have to start somewhere.... This workshop with DOUG MITCHELL is aimed to set you off in the right direction.
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A glued structure with fold-out pages, pockets and windows, finished with a case binding. Suitable for postcards, photos and other small holiday ephemera. There is plenty of scope for individual creative variations. Ursula will be sharing some of the tips and techniques she has developed for albums in general, having made some hundreds of these for a commercial supplier.
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House Book Structure with Paul Johnson - details TBC
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This workshop will focus on the process of responding to a text block creatively to make illustrated papers. As part of the design process, we'll cover sketches and ideation, and then several methods of painting with inks, water colours and acrylic paints. These papers can be used as endpapers or book sides, and hopefully you'll leave inspired to develop your ideas at home. You'll also be talked through the process of making painted endpapers that allow the design to develop…
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EAST ANGLIAN REGION This workshop is by LEE SHEARMAN and you can see what he does on his web site. What will we be doing in the Village Hall at Linton? A full sized working paper model of our Region's Chairman? Join and find out.
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The Society's Education and Training funds are sponsoring a two day workshop for us on the K118 structure with Glenn Malkin. They will be paying the Tutor's Fee and travel expenses and the hire of the community centre. It is a quarter leather book structure with a cloth-tab board attachment. In this two day workshop participants will make a book from scratch, folding and sewing the sections and lining the spine. In this case, the book is rounded but not…
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EAST ANGLIA REGION This is a TWO DAY workshop where TOM McEWAN will show how edges may be decorated in a variety of ways. You can see some of Tom's amazing work on his web pages but there are no edge decorations shown there. What will Tom bring to Linton Village Hall?
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A two-day workshop with Julian Thomas MBE, conservator and bookbinder, Fellow of Designer Bookbinders. The workshop is sponsored by the Society of Bookbinders under the Travelling Workshop Scheme. There is no fee but there will be a £10 materials cost. There will be a maximum of 10 spaces.
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Following the huge success of the short course for The Naked Book last year, we offer another short course on book repair and simple conservation with Angela looking at paper repair, board treatment, and rebacking. There will be an option for an extra day.
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