Greetings to all and out very best wishes for the Christmas period. We expect to be able this year to celebrate with Church services and meetings with groups of friends in the way we traditionally have celebrated, and we hope you enjoy doing the same.
Our next Members Meeting will be the regular 28 Feb meeting, and we will set up for barbeque and marbling evening. Bring clothes that can get messy or aprons and enjoy experimenting with making marbles paper. The bindery will be open on that day from 2-5pm also. Email to book.
We have not opened formal bookings for open bindery which would be 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, However if there is sufficient interest, and the weather stays cool, we are able to be open on one or all of those days. Dates are 10, and 24 January, 14 Feb 2023. Please email me to book and we will open is there is sufficient interest.
Our formal program for the year will be released in Feb. High lights will be the National conference in July and the possibility of international speakers travelling here for workshops. along with a number of introductory, and intermediate level workshops.
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In addition we will have significant sales of equipment and materials donated by the families of former binders. We hope the availability of these materials and equipment, will assist in the development of individual skills and also allow new members to commence binding without great outlays of cash.
In all we are pleased to be looking with enthusiasm to the developing operations of the new bindery and meeting new friends as they also benefit from the services of Bookbinding Victoria.
\Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the President and your Committee.
Jim Finger.
Greetings all. Our next meeting day is Tuesday 25th October.
We will have the new bindery open for visitors, we are still organizing and arranging the pop out bindery, so there is work to be done. The committee will be there cataloguing the tools and materials for sale. The board cutter has arrived and in place, so now the heavy tools are all in a line, Board Cutter, Guillotine and Blocking press. The pop out bindery on wheels benches tables nipping presses, standing press is working will with just a 15 minute set up time from walk in to use. The gold tooling stoves and most of the hand tools are c atalogued and ready for use, and the materials buying scheme is close to being into operation. In addition the library if fully accessible. Feel free to drop in and have a look see even if you dont want to stay 2-5pm.
Our regular committee meeting will be at 6pm.
The Formal members meeting 7pm, will be a taste and see on the gold tooling, with samplers of leather and cloth, tools of all sorts to examine, and plan for use in your next binding.
The end of the year rushes to us.
Out meetings for the year.
Open Bindery 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in November 2-5pm. Our schedule at the present is a trial time. If Tuesdays do not suit, let us know and we will consider it in next years plans.
Final Members meeting we view the results of the Binding Challenge, this year an interesting limited press edition of In the privacy of their own Holmes. Can you understand the clues?
In 2023, there will be an exciting row of events, starting with Marbling in Feb. And keep a lookout for the National Conference coming up mid year.
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