Happenings at the Bindery: Sept 26
Greetings all,
Our buy swap and sell as very successful, with a number of large items, and many small ones now residing and challenging new owners. Thanks to all, and sorry to those who called after and had missed out. Remember that we have the members materials supply shop, and hope it will soon also be fully documented with lists online for you.
Our next meetings is at The Bindery, Bookbinding Victoria behind St Faith's Church 4 Charles St Glen Iris.
Three parts.
1. The Open Bindery: where you can come and bring your own projects and have access to the equipment and materials, plus some advice - 2pm Tuesday afternoon to 5pm.
2. The committee meeting at 6pm. Its for discussion of the plans and operations of the Bookbinders, but if you have a burning issue you wish to bring up with us, then give me a call and we will open a spot for you.
3. The General Members Meeting at 7pm. Bring along your latest project for show and tell, see other's projects, book clinic, for the book you just don't know how to start, and then have a go at some tooling on leather and cloth. We can start with some blind tooling like this:
Our buy swap and sell as very successful, with a number of large items, and many small ones now residing and challenging new owners. Thanks to all, and sorry to those who called after and had missed out. Remember that we have the members materials supply shop, and hope it will soon also be fully documented with lists online for you.
Our next meetings is at The Bindery, Bookbinding Victoria behind St Faith's Church 4 Charles St Glen Iris.
Three parts.
1. The Open Bindery: where you can come and bring your own projects and have access to the equipment and materials, plus some advice - 2pm Tuesday afternoon to 5pm.
2. The committee meeting at 6pm. Its for discussion of the plans and operations of the Bookbinders, but if you have a burning issue you wish to bring up with us, then give me a call and we will open a spot for you.
3. The General Members Meeting at 7pm. Bring along your latest project for show and tell, see other's projects, book clinic, for the book you just don't know how to start, and then have a go at some tooling on leather and cloth. We can start with some blind tooling like this:
Or like this:
Then we can move to some gold work like this:
But then it might be a bit confronting so we will start with something like this (sorry phone photo):
We will have set up the small gold blocker, along with a range of tools and foils to allow some experimentation, and perhaps inspiration as to how to go ahead. A gracious donation from Doncaster Bookbinders has allowed us to now have colours as well as gold!!
- Jim, VBG President
