24 November Proposed follow up day for Introductory Course students
30 November and 1 December, Introduction to Bookbinding at BVAC, cost $180 for 2 days
Please note some courses and workshops shown here are for the exclusive benefit of QBG members:
Introduction to Bookbinding:
(Held at: BVAC, Wellers Hill)
Course cost: $180
Time: 9.00 am to 4.00pm (both days)
Learn the basic and essential skills of bookbinding by making a handmade casebound book at our 2 day weekend course.
Equipment you will use Book you will make
You will learn and practice simple techniques of bookbinding so that you can make book, with it’s cover, from decorative materials. Students sew paper sections into tapes, round and back them and put on endpapers and headbands. They then make a case out of board These techniques will help you restore books, create artist books, bind simple sheets, rebind paperbacks and create beautiful volumes in your own style. Course fees : include tuition, materials, notes, some tools and our instructional DVD. & 1 year membership for non members. Course venue: BVACand two types of cloth, to make a “half-binding”, and then paste the book into the case. Time is allowed for the rebind paperbacks and create beautiful volumes in your own style. Course fees : include tuition, materials, notes, some tools and our instructional DVD. & 1 year membership for non members. Course venue: BVA
