TELLURIDE FALL COURSES 2011
Fundamentals of Bookbinding/Intermediate Fine Binding
September 12-23
Instructor Don Glaister
Two Weeks: Course Fee $1500
This is an entry-level class for the fine binding and book conservation programs, as well as an intermediate class for continuing fine binding students. In this class, students will learn and develop an understanding of traditional bookbinding techniques, beginning with a laced-on leather covered board structure. The class will introduce and further acquaint students with techniques needed in future fine binding and specialty courses at the Academy. Students will become familiar with hand sewing using a sewing frame, rounding and backing, edge decoration, weaving headbands, as well as leather paring and applying leather to their books.
The focus of the class will be on learning and revisiting sound bookbinding techniques with special emphasis on working with leather. Beginning students will complete a half-leather and a full-leather book and intermediate students will complete two full-leather books in the two-week course. No fine binding experience is needed for beginning students. Those new to AAB who wish to take the class as an intermediate student must first send samples of their work for evaluation.
From Content to Concept to Object
September 26-30
Instructors Don Glaister & Suzanne Moore
Five Days: Course Fee $800
This is the second in a series of classes at AAB focused on the development of concept and design in bookmaking. In it, students will explore various methods of thinking and working that enable them to find individual expression in the book form.
This class will address issues involved in artist’s book making and fine binding design. Through a series of specific exercises, each student will develop a concept for a book and give it form through the consideration of surface design, texture, scale, shape, pattern sequence and rhythm. Students will consider the binding and its role in the total object as they design and make the book’s pages. They will bind the book using concepts developed in the content development phase of the class as well as other concepts that will apply specifically to binding. The result will be a well thought out and inventive integrated whole. While many of the materials and techniques used in this one-week class are not ones used in fine binding, the concepts of design and invention are directly applicable to leather bindings and the fine binding form.
Intermediate/Advanced Fine Binding
October 17-28
Instructor Monique Lallier
Two Weeks: Course Fee $1500
In this two-week class students will complete two full-leather bindings. The student will utilize a variety of interior and exterior techniques such as laced-in boards, onlays, inlays, blind and gold tooling, embroidered endbands in the French technique and edge-to-edge leather doublures or sunken suede doublures. The focus will be on refining fundamental binding techniques while continuing to develop creative design elements. The class may be used as a review of the whole program or a concentration on one particular technique in order to prepare for the Diploma.
Anyone who has completed a ‘fine binding’ course with the American Academy of Bookbinding may register for this course. Bookbinders who have received training in other locations may submit their work in order to be accepted. This class may be repeated as needed.
Forwarding and Covering of Textblocks
October 31-November 11
Instructor Don Etherington
Two Weeks: Course Fee $1500
In this two-week class, students will learn how to forward and cover textblocks. In the first week, students will concentrate on rounding and backing, board attachment, endband sewing, and board shaping for various styles of binding. In the second week, students will concentrate on selecting various types of leather for covers and paring, and the different methods of covering. The filling-in of boards and endpaper attachment will also be practiced. This class is open to new students at the Academy who have prepared textblocks, or students who have attended the Academy’s Treatments of Textblocks and Sewing, also titiled Basics in Paper Conservation and Sewing Structures.
Advanced Paper Conservation
November 14-18
Instructor Renate Mesmer
Five Days: Course Fee $800
Participants who have taken Basics in Paper Conservation will intensify and deepen their knowledge from the previous class. Students who have taken Treatments of Textblocks and Sewing with Don Etherington are also invited to attend this advanced class. The theoretical parts will cover advanced paper chemistry, material studies, damage analysis, decision methodology, as well as the pros and cons of different treatments. Treatments will include a wide variety of washing and drying techniques, paper repairs, lining as well as sizing. Students will have plenty of time to practice the new techniques and apply them to treatments on their items in the class. Participants are encouraged to bring their own items to work on, like prints, drawings and/or textblocks.
