- Bookbinding: simple leather bindingCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ina BaumeisterDiscover how leather, combined with simple sewing and cutting techniques can create a wonderfully flexible and stylish bindings. Create books with folded and crossed structure covers, and include some decorative elements to personalise your work.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £175.00 - Book conservation and repair workshop: intermediateCourse start date: Wed 1 May 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gavin MoorheadIdeal if you have some bookbinding conservation experience and want to develop your skills further by working on your own projects with advice and guidance. Each term will include demonstrations that focus on a different aspect of book conservation.Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £324.00 - Bookbinding improvers’ workshopCourse start date: Mon 13 May 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gavin MoorheadThis one term course is designed to help students to develop their bookbinding skills. You will already have some experience of binding techniques and some knowledge of tools, materials and equipment in order to benefit from this workshop-style class. There will be the opportunity to work on your own projects, or to practice skills in which you feel less confident in order to enable you to progress to higher level courses. Not suitable for beginners.Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00 - Bookbinding: experiments in paper foldingCourse start date: Sat 8 Jun 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ina BaumeisterExplore colour, structure, and layering to produce exciting sculptural forms. By combining and extending techniques such as origami and concertina folding, cutting, piercing and slotting, you will create your own unique books. - Creative arts for bookbinding I: decorative paper techniquesCourse start date: Fri 12 Jul 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sue DoggettTry out a range of decorative techniques for paper including paste papers, dip dyed papers, rubber stamps and Japanese marbling for bookbinding use or as individual pieces. All levels welcome.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Bookbinding weekend: endband extravaganzaCourse start date: Sat 13 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kathy AbbottA weekend packed full of endbands for bookbinding enthusiasts. Learn a little about the history and different styles of endband and try out some for yourself. There will be demonstrations of a range of endbands including multi-coloured, Islamic and ‘Manhattan’ style. Suitable for those with bookbinding experience.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £159.00 - Fine binding masterclass III: creative approaches to design bindingCourse start date: Thu 18 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sue DoggettIf you already have technical bookbinding skills but want to kickstart, or develop your creative and design skills then this course will help you to develop ways of engaging visually with the content of the book. Through a series of practical excercises and activities, you will learn a range of creative thinking skills and ways to apply them to design for bookbinding. This course is aimed at bookbinders interested in design binding but would benefit anyone working in book arts who is interested in exploring a text visually.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £249.00 - Bookbinding: binding on stubsCourse start date: Wed 24 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kathy AbbottA stub binding is an excellent way to bind books that cannot be rounded and backed, or which have illustrations that cross the centre fold. Stubs can also be used to bind individual pieces of paper into a book. A stub binding allows the pages of a book to open freely – right back to the centre-fold, and once learned, this technique can be used with many traditional and contemporary binding styles.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Bookbinding weekend: notebooks and foldersCourse start date: Sat 27 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ina BaumeisterLearn to make single sheet folded books, a simple multi-section sewn book and a folded slipcase. This weekend course is an opportunity to make an exciting range of notebooks and folders and learn some useful bookbinding techniques. Suitable for beginners.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £159.00 - Book arts drop-inCourse start date: Tue 30 Jul 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sue DoggettA one-day, tutor supported book arts workshop. This short course is ideal for students who would like some technical or conceptual advice and the space to work on a personal project. Students will work independently with one to one support.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Leather book with magnetic closuresCourse start date: Thu 1 Aug 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nesta DaviesBind an elegant notebook which slips neatly into a leather-covered cover fastened by magnets. Internal pockets mean the book can be removed and a replaced with a new one when full. Beautifully reusable wrapping!Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00 - Try it out: bookbindingCourse start date: Sat 10 Aug 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate RochesterDip your fingers into bookbinding. Learn a little about the history, materials and craft of bookbinding while making an attractive book to take home. A chance to discuss further study in bookbinding at City Lit.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
- Beginners' bookbindingCourse start date: Mon 23 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Start your bookbinding journey with this accessible, 6 week introduction to techniques and structures. Learn how to make simple folded books progressing to a more complex stitched binding and explore the world of handmade books.
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