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Barry Clark – Beginners’ workshop: A Bookbinding Workshop with a difference!

The Portico Library 57 Mosely St, Manchester, United Kingdom

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...

£80

Barry Clark – Beginners’ workshop: Creating a hand-sewn leather journal

The Portico Library 57 Mosely St, Manchester, United Kingdom

Leather has long been the premier material for book covers. In this workshop with local bookbinder Barry Clark we will combine this ancient material with two traditional sewing methods - long stitch and link stitch. It requires no glue as the folded paper sections are sewn direct to the cover. Holes are punched into the...

£80

Richard Nichols: Conservation of a Medieval Psalter

The Portico Library 57 Mosely St, Manchester, United Kingdom

How to rebind a precious medieval book that has been badly bound and what you discover in the process. With Richard Nichols, an independent book conservator, who has spent 44 years working in Archive Services and Record Offices This talk will give a fascinating insight into the world of book repair and conservation from a...

£6

Michael Burke: Buried Alive! Books Unearthed in Our Time

The Portico Library 57 Mosely St, Manchester, United Kingdom

With Michael Burke, bookbinder and specialist in ancient and medieval bindings This lecture tells three stories of extraordinary ancient books that were lost for centuries and then found again. All three stories have in common that the manuscripts were deliberately buried underground. The various reasons for their burial, and the occasions of their discovery will...

£6

Barry Clark – Beginners’ workshop: Making a multi-section hardback

The Portico Library 57 Mosely St, Manchester, United Kingdom

Working with local bookbinder Barry Clark you will make a hardback notebook suitable for writing or sketching. First, we will make the flat-back sewn book block, with tipped-on plain endpapers. We’ll add endbands and spine linings. We will then make a cloth and decorative paper covered case (the covers) incorporating a French groove. Finally the...

£80

Barry Clark – Beginners’ workshop: A Bookbinding Workshop with a difference!

The Portico Library 57 Mosely St, Manchester, United Kingdom

Course fee includes provision of tools, materials, refreshments and a light lunch. More information and booking details on the Portico website: https://www.theportico.org.uk/event-calendar This talk is part of the region’s 50th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Society of Bookbinders in Manchester in 1974.

£80