Sponsored by FABS June 15, Monday at 4 pm Pacific Time. For a link contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org Chicago book artist Karen Hanmer began processing, dyeing, and binding with fish parchment as a covid lockdown distraction. In the six years since, it has become a large part of her practice. […]
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Sponsored by FABS Sol Rébora: Chaucer and Tomorrow’s Past Join us for a discussion with binder Sol Rébora about binding William Morris’s Chaucer, highlighting the balance between client expectations, conservation principles and contemporary bookbinding. The presentation will include models, process photos and a video of the finished work along with […]
Sponsored by FABS 16 October, 2023 7:30-8:50pm eastern / 6:30-7:50pm midwest / 5:30-6:50pm mountain / 4:30-5:50pm pacific ANATOMY OF A BOOK/BINDINGS FROM A PERUVIAN PENITENTIARY Join FABS members interested in Bindings for a discussion about the Anatomy of a Book with lang ingalls, and about bindings that were created in […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club We’re hoping that our June speaker will have enough material to draw on in order to fashion a presentation. After all, she has access to only 21 million choices. Tara O’Brien serves as Director of Preservation & Conservation Services at Philadelphia’s Historical Society of Pennsylvania. (The library […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Symposium on the themes of the Rare Book School exhibition, “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School & the Book Arts Press,” running in The Grolier Club’s ground-floor exhibition hall from September 28 through December […]