[TUTR] Dean for Bookbinding Courses

[Sharon Burrows]

Greetings to the List

Lions Gate is offering an Intensive Book Arts Course this fall and winter.  I need an impartial Dean to manage the paperwork for the course as i will be doing the teaching.  It could be someone who wants to take the courses for  themselves, as happened three years ago when I did the same course.

Here is the program

Location is in Lions Gate at Hastings and Nanaimo, Vancouver BC  near Sky Train and bus stops.

Sunday mornings once a month, as noted on each course.

Registrations is open now. 
There is room for 8 students and priority will be given to full time students, with others
being added if space is available,
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> The following course descriptions outline the once a month classes  
> to be offered over the next year 4 in the fall, and 4 in the spring.
> Priority will be given to students who register for the whole course,  
>  $ 100  and single classes will be registered as space is available


> 
> Aelana Cordovera            sburrows at shaw.ca                    (604)  876-9105

>                                     One Year Bookbinding Class
> 
> Students will gain a hands on aquaintance with bookbinding structures  
> and materials for the medieval period in Europe and Muslim countries.
> In addition styles of book cover decoration will be demonstrated and  
> suitable calligraphy and illumination for each will be discussed.  The course  
> provides a basic progress of skills for artisans and an in depth understanding  
> for judges of bookbinding skills.
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> 1. Intro to Bookbinding (2 - 3 hours) includes making a basic   			October 6 2013
> floralegium (soft cover book) as well as a discussion of historical  bookbinding
> materials and technniques.   Beginning with early Florileium, 
> the  Coptic, Anglo- Saxon-Carolingian, 12th Century Monastic,
> and  Gothic hard cover and soft cover styles.
> Included is a study of adaptations of  bookbinding technique to the printed book.  
> Samples of different structures will be available to examine.
> Students will fold paper into quires, sew and cover a basic paper book.

> Max 8    Cost $ 7 for extensive handout and supplies
> For all classes, all tools will be supplied, but students may bring  
> ruler, pencil, bone folder, triangle, awl if they have them on hand.        

These Books are ideal for largesse and gifts.
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> 2.  Coptic Sewn Boards (3 - 4 hours )         					October 20  2013

>  Suitable for Egyptian, Byzantine, Greek, Arabic, Irish, Roman Christian books.
> In this earliest style, wooden boards are sewn directly to the quires  
> of paper or papyrus pages in a chain stitch. We will discuss how leather covers  
> can be decorated and added to the book but will not do so in this  class.  
> Headbands and leather ties may also be added.
> Max 8   Cost  $ 10 for handout and materials                         
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> 3.  Anglo Saxon and Carolingian (6 -8 hours)   					 November 10  2013
>       The first advance in sewing pages onto cord supports was  
> developed by the  Anglo Saxon binders, which spread to the  
> Continent with Irish missionaries, and was soon adopted by Rome.   
> Paper quires will be sewn to hemp cords, which will be threaded  
> through wooden boards.  A leather cover with end tabs and appropriate  
> catch will be added.
> Max 8   cost $15 for handout and  materials.                          
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> 4 Romanesque, 12th C Monastic  (6 - 8 hours)     				December 8 2013
>   Oak boards and leather cover, simple clasp, use of sewing frame
>    This is the high point of hand bound books developed from earlier styles by the             
> monastic bookbinders of the 12th and 13th centuries.  Quires of pagers will be sewn onto            
>  split  leather thongs using a sewing frame, which developed at this time.  
> Tunnels will be made in oak boards for threading the  thongs through.  
> A demonstration of sewing headbands and embroidered  tabs, will be given.
> Discussion of how the leather covers were decorated with metal stamps and             
> simple metal clasps on  leather straps.  We will apply a simple cover and demonstrate
> making a metal clasp.
> Max 8   cost $ 15 for handout and  materials                        
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> 5 Gothic Books: 14 - 15 C  (9 - 12 hours) includes overnight drying time.   Jan 18 - 19 2014
>         Includes use of sewing frame, leather cover, simple clasp, and headbands.
> With the universities came Guild -produced books, both simplifying the  
> monastic techniques and elaborating the decoration of  
> book covers for students and noble book lovers.  Quires (paper pages)  
> will be sewn on leather thongs or cords, and head and  
> tai bands will be sewn.  As books were stood up in bookshelves, head and tail
> tabs were no longer  used.  Discussion of the various stamping, embossed metal and jewel  
> and embroidered covers and elaborate catches  with pictures will take place.
> Max 8  cost $ 18 for supplies and  handout.  

6. An extra day to make brass corners, clasps and decorations can be arranged in a workshop.
This will include skills of designing for your book, sawing brass, bending, and decoration by 
repousse, etching, or enamel.  Then more bending, drilling and nailing onto leather 
covered book boards.

Max 6 or bring tools, cost $15 for materials and handout.               		February  TBA
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> 7. Renaissance -Limp Parchment  (3 - 4 hours)                       			March   TBA
> A ancient economy binding, later developed for printed paper books. Limp  
> parchment books are found in libraries throughout the Middle Ages,  
> especially for nuns and students, or for unfinished  
> gatherings of material. They came into their own with the              
> universities and printing press when fast and cheap methods of  
> producing the Medieval Pocket Book were required.
> Quires are sewn directly to a parchment or paper cover, supported by  
> a leather  or thin wooden back strip.  We will use a long stich with  
> chain  stitch at the ends, though simpler and more elaborate methods
> are also possible. No head and tail bands.
> Covers may have an envelop flap in the Islamic style  
> and ties and button to keep them closed.

> Max 8   Cost $10 for hand made paper covers, though parchment may
> sometimes be available for an extra  $ 10 charge.                                              
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> 8. Islamic Books   (3 - 4 hours)								April TBA
> Islamic books come in many styles, but we will make the envelope book  
> that preceded the modern case binding.  Paper quires will be sewn and  
> pasteboard will be used to support a leather cover.   
> Islamic decoration will be studied and some simple decoration may be  
> applied before the book is finally covered and dried.
>  Max 8  Cost  $12                                                                      
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Sharon Burrows
sburrows at shaw.ca
aelanacordovera.com

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