CBBAG—Ottawa Valley Chapter

Currently Scheduled

Tacketed Binding

Instructor: Christine McNair

Location: J.A. Dulude Arena (click for map) Meeting Room
491 Clyde Avenue, Nepean, Ontario, Canada
Ample parking available

Duration: Sunday, November 1, 2009

Course Hours: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Course fee: $80 members/$90 non-members

Please make cheque payable to: CBBAG-Ottawa Valley Chapter
Send cheque to: Larry Thompson,
Box 574, Merrickville, Ontario K0G 1N0
For more information contact Larry Thompson at 613-269-3714

Materials fee: $20 (payable to the instructor)

Prerequisites: Prior experience hand sewing books is useful but not required.

Description: A one-day workshop where participants will make a small tacketed semi-limp binding. Part of the stationery binding tradition, tacketed bindings hold the sewn bookblock to the cover using parchment tackets that are twisted and laced into a case. Decorative lacing is also sometimes used on the covers. The binding produced in the workshop is based upon a medieval example from Lyon that is also sometimes used as a conservation binding for archival materials. Participants will sew the book block, make their own parchment tackets and lace the covers. (See pictures.)

Workshop proposals (TBD)

Susan Pinard—Pop-Up.

Holly Dean—Image Transfer

Previous Courses

Bookbinding I

Instructor: Mary McIntyre

Duration: Five full days

Course fee: $400 members/$460 non-members*

Materials fee: $35

Prerequisites: none

This course introduces the variety of tools, materials, sewings and constructions fundamental to hand bookbinding. The course will start with the making of a simple pamphlet and proceed to the binding of two hard cover books. This class prepares participants to explore bookbinding on their own or continue with more advanced studies.

* The non-member fee includes one year's membership in CBBAG. It is to be paid on the first workshop only.