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Bookbinding: make your own endbands!

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Old School Room, Kickstart Arts
New Town TAS, Australia
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Bookbinding: Make your own Endbands! with Pru Quarmby

A workshop for those with bookbinding experience.

Sunday 29th August
10am - 4pm
$105 / $78 
Optional extra: $20 for take home materials.


It is possible to purchase a limited variety of endbands for hand made journals, but it is much more fun to make your own!  

When you arrive you will receive a set of instructions, fabric, thread and needles.  If you need all the materials to be supplied (a kit containing board, pages, thread, needle, cover pages) you can buy a kit off Pru for $20. Otherwise, feel free to bring everything you need from home. 

Tools provided include: glue, cutting boards, cutters, rulers, and so on. 

Note: this workshop is suitable for people who already have some bookbinding experience.  Eg. you have attended a bookbinding workshop in the past.

If you're not sure whether this workshop is for you, send us an email.

WHAT YOU'LL GET
  • At least 2 book blocks (sets of pages for the book) sewn onto tapes
  • 2 types of endbands for handmade journals. (A cloth endband and a stitched endband: Each has its own place in journal making, and use depends on the style of construction of the book. 
  • A deeper understanding of the art of book making
  • Everything you need to continue at home, including needles, thread and instructions
WHAT TO BRING
  • Notebook and pencil to take notes
  • Any bookbinding tools or materials that you have (optional)
  • Camera to take photos of the process (optional)
BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL
Please book via Humanitix so that we know you are coming.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Pru Quarmby has been making books and teaching hand-binding techniques for over 15 years. She has sold her creations at Salamanca Arts galleries, and at various markets and fairs including Deloraine Craft Fair.

There are so many techniques to learn to produce so many different styles of books - artists' books, journals, family histories, limited edition books, and theme books for children, just to mention a few.

https://www.bibiani.com/

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Old School Room, Kickstart Arts
New Town TAS, Australia