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Bookbinding opportunities in the Autumn

Autumn is a great time to start a new interest or learn a new skill.
I will be teaching bookbinding at Craft in the Bay this year where there will be three very different courses to cater for varrying interests and levels of skill but everyone is welcome.

The new course with Make it in Wales in October is designed for those wishing to use their own fabric to bind a book- perhaps for a wedding guest book or photograph album.

All tools, materials and a choice of fabrics will be provided for everyone at these courses

29^th September

Bookbinding for Beginners

Simple pamphlets with soft covers, concertina books with hard covers and ribbon ties and books with stab-stitch bindings

at Craft in the Bay, Cardiff

20th October
Coptic Binding

Coptic bound books are constructed with decorative chain stitching across the spine and open flat when laid on a table

at Craft in the Bay, Cardiff

17^th November

Tunnel Books

A magical, miniature world contained inside a book. Let your imagination run wild as you create unlikely scenes in 3 dimensions, using found images.

at Craft in the Bay, Cardiff

These courses will take place in the workshop areas at Craft in the Bay

Booking for Courses at Craft in the Bay can be made by telephone 029 2048 4611

Parking

A discounted rate of £4 per day for parking in Apcoa Waterside (subject to terms and conditions). Please speak to the staff Craft in the Bay staff when you book for more information.

18^th October

Square hard back sketchbook or journal

Hand stitch and bind a chunky square book with fabric covers, finished with a button and cord closure.

with Make it in Wales at Ceridwen, Drefach Felindre

Booking for this course can be made through the Make in Wales website HERE

OTHER EVENTS

27th and 28th October 10-5pm

and there will also an informal workshop day sometime in September when I can see a slot- more information soon

Coptic binding book course

One Day Coptic Binding Course
30th March

Just weeks away now from my next book binding, one day course.

We will be making a coptic bound book suitable for sketching, drawing, journaling or scrapbooking, with hard covers, bound with pretty handprinted papers and finished with decorative coptic binding.
No previous experience required

This adaptable technique can later be used to bind more unusual objects into a book form

Date/Time
Date(s) - 30/03/2018
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location
The Coach House, St Dogmaels

Booking and more details can be found on the Make it in Wales Website at www.makeitinwales.co.uk

Autumn Book-binding Workshops

Bookbinding Workshops 2017

During an exhibition

by the

Square Pegs

Sept. 4th-9^th

in the studio gallery

Oriel Cric, Crickhowell

I will be running a special workshop:

Coptic Binding

Saturday September 9th 10.30-4pm

Oriel Cric, Crickhowell

Make a coptic bound book with hard covers and a decorative stitched open spine, suitable for use as a sketchbook, notebook, diary or journal. All materials and tools provided.

Booking : Oriel Cric 01873 811970

Open Spine Binding

18th October at The Ceridwen Centre, Drefach Felindre.

Create a beautiful A5 (portrait format) book with hardback covers and a decorative stitched spine.

Bind your book with a choice of papers and stitch the open spine with a combination of coloured tapes and threads. This workshop is recommended for bookbinders with a little experience.

All materials required are included in the course fee. A spacious work area is allocated to each student along with their own set of tools to use while they’re here. A plentiful supply of tea, coffee and afternoon cake is provided.

Booking online at www.makeitinwales.co.uk

Tunnel Books

Saturday 25th November 10-3.30pm

Preseli Community Learning Centre,Ysgol y Preseli, Crymych, SA41 3QH

A magical, miniature world inside a tunnel.

This workshop re-cycles pictures from magazines to create an intriguing tunnel book. Let your imagination run wild as you combine pictures to create unlikely scenes using found images.

Concertina folds of paper support collaged scenes to create a miniature theatre. Viewed through a single window an imaginary 3 dimensional landscape is revealed.

and

Introduction to Bookbinding

a 5 week evening class commencing Wed 31-1-2018

Preseli Community Learning Centre,Ysgol y Preseli, Crymych, SA41 3QH

Wk 1: Concertina books.

Wk 2: Star books

Wk 3: Pamphlets, tacket binding and long stitch.

Wk 4 & Wk 5:Simple hardback sketch book with book cloth cover

Booking Ysgol y Preseli Telephone: 01437 770180

Pages, Contemporary Artists Book Fair

Pages Book Fair in Leeds this weekend and later this month a chance to make your own coptic bound book

PAGES Leeds | International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair

The Tetley, Leeds, 4th - 5th March 2017,
10am - 5pm Admission free

Books, book art and all things artist book related- a great free day out. Inspiring books to read and handle, the artists and makers, talks, refreshments, and easy parking just outside.

Carole will be showing a selection of tunnel books as well as concertina books from the 'Treelines' series, hand stitched and bound sketchbooks and handprinted papers.
Glenn is bringing his new book 'Drought' and accompanying prints, his book 'Eclipse' created from work made in collaboration with a Japanese calligrapher and other publications

Coptic Binding Workshop
March 11th
Crymych

ONLY ONE PLACE LEFT ON THIS COURSE

Books using Coptic Binding

Make a coptic bound book with hard covers and a decorative stitched open spine, suitable for use as a sketchbook, notebook, diary or journal.

During this one day workshop participants will complete an A5 size book (portrait format) filled with drawing quality paper.

Coptic binding secures the pages so that they will open flat on a table : it enables you to combine multiple types of paper within one book.

Skills required: Just accurate measurement, a bit of patience and simple sewing skills required

If you would like to come please contact Bethan at
Bethan.Phillips@pembrokeshire.gov.uk

as soon as possible

Details of other workshops can be found at http://nantdesigns.co.uk/eventsandworkshops.html

Coptic Binding Workshop on July 28th at Cardigan Castle

Coptic Binding Workshop
Coptic bound books are constructed with decorative chain stitching across the spine and open flat when laid on a table. A little looser than a casebound book this allows for the addition of photographs or pictures to be added at a later date without stressing the spine.

We will be making an A5 hardback book (portrait orientation) containing around 160 writing or drawing surfaces of good quality cartridge with coloured or patterned dividers.

Photo: Make it in Wales

Date
28th July 10.30 - 4.30 pm
Booking
http://www.makeitinwales.co.uk/events/coptic-binding-with-carole-king/

Coptic Binding

A one day workshop today in the sunshine at Nant ( well the sun was coming through our big windows!)
Coptic binding was the task in hand and todays group succeeded in producing some creditable efforts on their first attempts. Its not easy to keep everything at the correct tension, cope with long threads and multiple parts of the book to hold whilst sewing so well done....
Here are two of the finished books-

More printmaking courses coming soon -see http://nantdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/autumn-courses-at-nant.html

for details

Hillarys Blinds Country Crafts Competition- Peacock Book

The Challenge:

Using your 100cm x 100 cm piece of Country Retreat fabric and any other materials, put your creative talents to the test by making an original craft design

This competition appeared on my facebook page just at that moment I needed a new challenge and with a great choice of fabrics

I knew exactly what I wanted to create:
A coptic bound book suitable for photos or a guest book with card pages with a satin ribbon tie.

The Covers

The 'Bird Parade' is a gentle pattern depicting peacocks on a heavy weight fabric with a silky surface.

Each bird was about 30 cm high just right to make the covers for a book. I cut two rectangular panels, larger by about two centimetres all round, than the size of book I wanted to make.

The card to make the hardback cover is 3mm greyboard and each measures 33 x 22 cm. The edges were sandpapered to take off any sharp corners

The fabric was glued to the card using evenly spread PVA and allowed to dry

Each corner is folded over and stuck before the edges are glued down. There are many ways of folding up the corners to give a neat finish depending on the materials used. Scoring the fabric with a finger nail helps to make a sharp fold.

The Pages

The pages are cut from 'Seawhites' antique white card in pairs and folded. Each page needs to be about 0.5 cm smaller than the covers on the open sides but not at the spine. My book has 10 pairs of pages in 5 groups ( signatures).

This book is stitched with a coptic binding which creates a decorative spine and will lie completely flat on the table. The stitching passes through holes in the cover and through the signatures- these all need to line up. A hole making jig is card with holes pierced in it to indicate where to position the holes in each section.
For coptic binding there are two rows of holes- one for the pages and one for the holes in the covers.

The jig

signature and jig ready for piercing

The card is placed in a v shaped trough and an awl is used to pierce the holes in each signature.

piercing the holes

The covers are held with the outsides together and the holes are cut with the jig and a paper drill.

The ribbon which forms the tie has been inserted through a slit in the covers, folded over and is glued down. This will be under the lining and hidden.

Inserting the ties

The cover boards are lined with one of my own silkscreen printed papers in a co-ordinating colour ( appropriately enough -in peacock design)

The covers and pages can now be sewn together

The Coptic Binding

I have used 3mm satin ribbon for the coptic binding. I start by knotting the ribbon and stitching through one of the end holes in the 1st signature, inside to outside

Hold the cover next to the 1st signature and take over to the outside of the cover and into the corresponding hole. The ribbon then passes between the cover and the signature and back through this hole again, in the same direction, and finally back into the first signature in hole no 1

Repeat with all the holes in this signature.

At the last hole instead of returning inside the first signature after passing around the cover add the next signature of pages and sew into the first hole at this end. Emerge from the next hole.

Each signature is now chain stitched to the next and a knot is placed at the end of each row to keep it firm. More pages are added as reach row is completed.

The last page and cover are added simultaneously.
Two stitches are made through each hole in the cover before the chain stitch is made. The stitching ribbon progresses between holes inside the signature as before.