As part of our regional celebrations of our 50th anniversary we are curating two exhibitions at Manchester Central Library: one of design bindings, and one featuring work created at our regional workshops. We will visit both exhibitions and also be treated to a display of private press books from the Library’s extensive collection. Please book...
An opportunity to get creative making a variety of ingenious, fun and useful items. Working with local bookbinder Barry Clark you will re-create the almost forgotten milkman’s Magic Wallet; the Turkish Map Fold (a way to present a whole page image in a small and attractive format); the Pop-Up invitation/greetings card for those special occasions...
Date: Wednesday 13 November at 19:00 GMT Venue: online presentation on Zoom Speaker: Aimee Lee Description: Since 2007, Aimee Lee has been immersed in all things hanji, which is Korean paper. In this talk, she will share her trajectory from the US to Korea in search of papermaking skills, ancestral reclamation, and a sense of...
This workshop is now fully booked. Date: Friday 15 and Saturday 16 November from 10:00-16:00 both days Venue: Ground floor hall, Kelly St., Kentish Town Instructor: Midori Kunikata-Cockram Workshop description: The style of box provides ideal storage for various sizes and shapes of books and papers. The basic construction is a wraparound enclosure with a...
Invitations to each workshop will be emailed out six weeks before each event. Priority will be given to members of the region. Please contact margaretcastle@yahoo.co.uk if you would like to be sent an invitation for any of the workshops.
Louisa trained in Embroidery (BA (Hons) from MMU), making sculptures using sewn bookbinding structures as her final outcomes. Her artistic career since has seen her working with painting, print and sculpture, but her continued interest in the tradition of bookbinding has been integral to developing her portfolio. Between 2010 and 2014 Louisa undertook training from...
William Morris founded his Kelmscott Press in 1890 in order to save the fine art of hand printing in Britain. When in 1896 his last book, the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, was published, it was universally hailed as the greatest book of the age. It is a huge book, with illustrations by Burne Jones and...
Date: 7 December from 10:30-3:30 Venue: Ground floor hall, Kelly St., Kentish Town Speaker: Victoria Hall and Yvonne Lewis Description: The National Trust has received around 200 book collections as part of its property and interior collections portfolio over the last hundred years. They range wildly in size and scope of material content, from medieval...