SCHEDULE

* indicates prerequisite required

2007

October 18-19 or October 25-26, 2007
Slipcase & Clamshell Box Construction

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2008

April 10-11, 2008*
Leather Binding Restoration

May 8-9, 2008
New Cloth Bindings

June 5-6 OR June 19-20, 2008
Refurbishing I

July 17-18 OR July 24-25, 2008*
Refurbishing II

September 11-12, 2008*
Cloth Binding Restoration

October 16-17 or October 23-24, 2008
Slipcase & Clamshell Box Construction


Call 540-662-2683
or e-mail to register

All workshops are “hands on.”

Cost of materials included.

Full written instructions included for everything taught in workshops.

Class size limited to 9 people.

Spacious modern facility that is a full-time functioning bookbindery.

Instructors with 25+ years combined experience.

LODGING INFORMATION

Long Hill Bed & Breakfast 540-450-0341 www.longhillbb.com is the closest lodging to the bookbindery. It is an exquisite B&B and has received national awards for excellence. The proprietors are charming, friendly and helpful.

Holiday Inn Express 540-667-7050 is located on Route 522 at Route 37 and is about 5 miles from the bindery.

Econo Lodge North 540-662-4700 This is located north of Winchester on Route 37 and is about 6 miles from the bookbindery.

Comfort Inn 540-667-8894 is also on Route 37 north of Winchester near the Econo Lodge.

School for Bookbinding Arts
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Cat Tail Run Hand Bookbinding

 

 

The School for Bookbinding Arts is committed to providing quality training in the craft of hand bookbinding. Its ongoing series of two-day workshops is designed to teach techniques that are immediately useful to the student as well as to create a solid foundation of skills for further bookbinding study. The curriculum includes both basic and advanced courses that are geared toward the needs of book dealers, collectors and anyone interested in learning the art of hand bookbinding. Each workshop features demonstrations of the techniques being taught coupled with ample supervised practice time for the student. A complete package of printed notes accompanies each of the workshops to aid the student in assimilating the body of information being presented.

Workshops are taught in the studios of Cat Tail Run Hand Bookbinding near Winchester, Virginia. Cat Tail Run Hand Bookbinding is a fully operational hand bookbinding and book restoration facility established in 1991 by Jill Deiss, who serves as the chief instructor for The School for Bookbinding Arts.

 

 

WORKSHOPS

Our series of bookbinding workshops is designed to meet the needs of book dealers, collectors, and those interested in learning the craft of hand bookbinding.

INTRODUCTORY RESTORATION COURSES

Book Refurbishing Part I
EVERY JUNE

This course teaches a wide variety of skills that are immediately useful and also serves as a foundation for later courses. Techniques taught include: repairing damaged corners, endcaps and outer joints on cloth & leather bindings where the boards have not yet become detached; toning cloth and leather bindings; moisturizing and polishing leather bindings; minor paper repair techniques.

$235
 

Book Refurbishing Part II
EVERY JULY

Students will extend knowledge gained in Part I by learning how to reattach boards to books where the text pages are sound, but the cover boards have broken away .
Book Refurbishing Part I (offered every June) is a prerequisite for this workshop.

$235

 

ADVANCED RESTORATION COURSES

Cloth Reback/Restoration of Cloth Bindings
EVERY SEPTEMBER

The cloth reback is the ultimate restoration technique for cloth bindings, returning bindings to a condition and look very near to what they were before they fell into disrepair . Book Refurbishing Part I (offered every June) & II (offered every July) are prerequisites for this workshop.

$235
 
Leather Reback/Restoration of Leather Bindings
EVERY APRIL 

The leather reback is the companion repair to the cloth reback but for leather bindings. Book Refurbishing Part I (offered every June) & II (offered every July) are prerequisites for this workshop.

$235

 

GENERAL BOOKBINDING COURSES

New Cloth Bindings
EVERY MAY

Two styles of new binding will be taught to enable students to put covers on books that have lost theirs original bindings.

$235
 

Slipcase & Clamshell Box Construction
EVERY OCTOBER

Students will learn the craft of creating custom-fit slipcases and clamshell boxes.

$235

 

MASTERS SERIES COURSES

Students completing Refurbishing I & II, New Cloth Bindings, and Restoration of Leather Bindings are eligible for Masters Series courses. These include workshops in New Leather Bookbinding, Advamced Paper Repair and Advanced Titling and Gold Leaf Tooling.


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