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Victorian Bookbinders Guild

For all interested in the Art, Craft and Practice of Bookbinding

Rare Book Week Talk; Debra Parry 12 July 12noon to 1pm

As part of Rare Book Week Guild Vice President Debra Parry will be giving a presentation

Care and Preservation of Books

Where

At the Genealogical Society of Vic 85 Queen St Level 6. 12 July 12 noon to 1 pm. Booking required 96624455 or on the website www.gsv.org.au

Also Debra will be running a workshop on book boxes . see the workshops schedule on the right of the page.

Society of Bookbinders Bath 2019

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Conference 2019brings an exciting change of venue for us, giving you a chance to visit the ancient Roman City of Bath.

The Conference provides a great opportunity for bookbinders of all levels to see demonstrations by knowledgeable experts in a wide range of fields. Amateurs and those with less experience will find inspiration and encouragement; professionals will gain new ideas. If you have not been to a Conference before, you will find it easy to make new friends and to talk to the speakers and other top-level binders. You will find them approachable and always willing to discuss bookbinding matters with you. Competition books will be on display throughout for you to view and enjoy.

The Trade Fair suppliers will be attending with bookbinding materials, tools and books for sale.

SPEAKERS

Jonathan Bloom Paper before Print

Glenn Malkin Airbrushing for the artistically challenged

Glenn Bartley A box lined with velvet

Edward Cheese Books, Libraries & Museum: Problems and Possibilities for Book Conservation

Sün Evrard Conservation binding in stone veneer

Pascale Therond Gold Tooling

Nesta Davies Tacketed Bindings

Tine Noreille Perfect Measuring, Cutting and Folding

Sol Rebora Reversible Stubs, a technical element useful for conservationof the book and binding

Cristina Balbiano D’Aramengo When printmaking, typography and bookbinding meet. The backstage of limited art editions

Peter Jones Leather Inlays and Onlays

Midori Kunikata Cockram Sunago – the Japanese art of decorating paper with gold leaf

Lester Capon Perforated Vellum Bindings

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The Guild at Clunes 2019

We had a great time as your committee representing Bookbinders at the Clunes Booktown May5. Official statistics were 15000 attended in the 2 days. We spent our time doing various book making tasks, case binding boxes, book stitching, and gold blocking. We gave away over 100 bookmarks with personal gold blocked names to the people who stopped by for a discussion. See more about Gold Blocking hands on in the Mat 2019 meeting at West Hawthorn Uniting Church.

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Debra making boxes, Mary making book block, David holding the Marvels of the Universe, Jim at rear left blocking bookmarks while Helen watches, Tim explaining stitching to 2 visitor on the right.

Ever had a disaster, here is one.

the mistake over hot tools burned leather A full leather copy of; The Perfume of Books, by Erika Mordek, a book on old bindings, so it deserves a full leather binding with a Cambridge Panel, a trade binding pattern from the late 1700's.. But during the blind tooling an overhot tool burns the leather.

May 28 2019 Meeting. Making Blocked Labels

Made a book but no label? Now is your chance to plan a label, and come along a make the label with either cloth, paper or some leather. Check out the additions to the post at the bottom of the file

Open Bindery at the Dorking Press May 2019

I will again host an open bindery Thursday evenings through May 2019.

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Call for Contributions

Have you recently completed a project? Our members would love to hear about it!

Please send a short paragraph and a picture to the Editor, preferably by email to editor@vbg.net.au so that we can include your account in our next newsletter and on our website.

We also encourage members to share their achievements and experiences at club nights. Bring along photos, drawings or examples and feel welcome to talk about these as part of the meeting.