Come and say hello to us at Crafting Connections.
Sat 28 March, 10am – 12pm at the Fitters Workshop, 21 Wentworth Ave, Kingston.
View a display of members’ work and watch demonstrations of bookbinding techniques.
Drum Leaf Binding, 12 July 2025 – Fully booked
Transit (Orange) by Avril Makula
Drum Leaf Binding – suitable for all levels
Drum leaf binding is an adhesive book structure made up of single folded folios.
Pages are ‘drummed’ at the spine and foredge, then the spine and cover are attached. Only one side of each folio is visible when the book is bound, making it a great structure for binding prints, drawings and the like, when only one side of the paper has been used. This is a book with no stitching, allowing full page spreads uninterrupted by rows of thread in the centre folds. It can be made from a wide range of paper types. This binding style lies quite flat and is fairly easy to construct.
This book structure is great for binding existing artwork, or you can also use blank pages readying it for making your mark.
Tutor: Avril Makula – A book artist, book designer, bookbinder and owner of Alphabet City Press. In her current practice, she prints and binds books using both new and old technologies, takes discarded books and restructures them into new forms, and makes prints using letter shapes. While much of her work explores the book as art using typography, geometry and colour as content, she finds herself increasingly influenced by the natural
To book a place, please register at canberrabookbinders@gmail.com
A list of what to bring in your kit will be provided following registration.
Date: Saturday 12 July 2025
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Venue: Room 3, Hughes Community Centre, Wisdom St, Hughes, ACT
Fee: $120 for Canberra Craft Bookbinders Guild members ($160 for non-members).
Cancellation policy
Refunds are given on any cancellations up to 12 hours before the course and for substantial grounds on the day of the course.
GUILD 24 on YouTube
GUILD 24 – an exhibition of recent works by members of the Canberra Craft Bookbinders’ Guild has wrapped up. There were 19 exhibitors and 38 bindings/constructions. If you or others would like to look at all those wonderful books again, then that is possible now and into the future.
A YouTube video (4.51 mins and a catalogue, have been created as artifacts of the exhibition.
Access it via GUILD 24 YouTube or search Canberra Bookbinders YouTube Guild 24.
View the online catalogue via National Library of Australia, TROVE.
GUILD 24 – exhibition 6 Sept – 2 Oct
GUILD 24 – an exhibition of recent works by members of the Canberra Craft Bookbinders’ Guild.
19 exhibitors and 38 bindings/constructions of fine, contemporary, sculptural and artist creations.
6 September – 2 October, 2024.
More about the exhibition at Home – Libraries ACT
Civic Library opening hours – Monday to Friday 10am – 5.30pm – Saturday 10am to 4pm
Guild 24 – Exhibition entry details for members
The CCBG Committee is so pleased to announce the entry details for Guild 24, our members only exhibition to be held Mezzanine level of the Civic Library in Canberra.
Find all the information on the website under Events and news. Deadline for entries 8 August 2024.
Image of a few of the 36 works in Guild 22 taken during ‘bump in’.
Instructions – 3 Panel. Ribbon Hinge Accordion Fold Binding
This is a method of construction that frees the binder from the scale and accuracy constraints inherent in more traditional forms of the concertina binding.
Instructions 3 – Panel, Ribbon Hinge Accordion Fold Binding
Embroidering on leather Sat May 11- Full
While many of us are familiar with stitching when binding books, embroidering the covers may be new to you. This activity is for those who have very little experience in embroidery. We begin by stitching samples on bookcloth and progress to embroidering on leather during the day.
Embroidered covers have been done by Hannah Brown, Sue Doggett and Erin Fletcher. There are a number of other artists, such as Anna Yevtukh-Squire and Adele Outtridge, who teach exposed and decorative stitching on the spines of books.
Cyril Davenport’s Book of English Embroidered Bookbinding s from Gutenberg is an interesting resource – which can be downloaded free in many formats.
BIND25, Auckland, NZ
Exciting announcement.
Association of Book Crafts(NZ) have confirmed BIND25!
The conference will take place at the Auckland University of Technology(AUT) over the weekend of 12-14 September, 2025.
They are pleased to have this quality venue confirmed and now that they have the dates pinned down, planning can begin in earnest.
And there is much to organise!
At the beginning of April they will be calling for papers and workshops and also identifying the two keynote speakers. website abc-nz.org.nz
Exhibition ‘Reflections of a Philosophical Voyager’ 3 – 20 Aug 2023
In partnership with the Bookbinding Guilds of ACT & NSW,
The Sutton Village Gallery will present the unique exhibition of fine bindings titled
‘Reflections of a Philosophical Voyager’.
This exhibition will showcase 18 bookbinders from around Australia, highlighting the varied approaches to the text, comprising Nicolas Baudin’s 1802 letter written to Governor Philip King. The letter was reproduced by the State Library of South Australia in 2016 and is a fascinating account by the French navigator of the French laying claim to King Island.
The exhibition will run from 3-20 August, 2023, with the official launch taking place 1:30pm, 5 August.
All welcome.
Bind a Leather Journal with Joy Tonkin – 12th August
Bind a custom leather journal, ‘Tegumentum’, 15th century style with master bookbinder Joy Tonkin.
The workshop is being held at the Sutton Village Gallery, Saturday 12th August, 1 -4pm.
Workshop participants will be making a traditional 15th century limp leather journal.
For more info and to book a place …