Wiltshire & Online
Bookbinding

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Wiltshire & Online Bookbinding
COURSES

Course Timetable 2024
Daffodil Barn summer
Daffodil Barn,
Unit 2
Woodborough Yard,
Woodborough,
Wiltshire SN9 5PF

Tel: 01672 851979

Daffodil Barn Winter 

TO ENQUIRE ABOUT AVAILABILITY AND TO BOOK A COURSE PLEASE EMAIL:

WENDY LAGDEN:     wl@bookbinding.co.uk


TERM AND CONDITIONS

We must be informed of any cancellations at least two weeks prior to the commencement of the course.  If we are not informed in this time, a £50.00 administration charge will be levied up to 48 hours before the commencement of the course.  After this time no refunds will be given.  Whilst every effort is made to avoid cancellation or postponent of courses.  Shepherds Bookbinders Ltd reserve the right to cancel or postpone a course, and will endeavor to give 5 working days' notice before the start date.  In these circumstances a full refund will be made, but we cannot be held responsible for any consequential loss.
Check out the course dates for 2024 which are now being added regularly to this page.
APR 2024
Monday 8th
to
Friday 12th
April
C&G Level I
(Unit 119)
Award

  Photograph Album & Slipcase (5 days)

 

This course is the second unit necessary for the Level 1 C&G Award in Bookbinding, where you will learn how to make two different types of photograph album, one with folded guards, and one with stiff boards, and a lined cloth slipcase.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Mylyn McColl

 £597 inc VAT
Friday 26th
to
Sunday 28th
April
C&G Level 3
Diploma

 17th Century-style Laced on Vellum Binding (3 days)

An optional assignment in the C&G Level 3 curriculum, this offers an alternative style binding, where you will make a limp vellum binding cover, attached to a text-block with leather thongs.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Kathy Abbott

£492 inc VAT
Tuesday 30th April
to
Thursday 2nd May
C&G Level 2
(Unit 201/202)
Certificate

  Design & Sampling (3 days)

This course is for those who would like to achieve a certificate in Level 1 or 2 Bookbinding and who have no previous arts experience.  You will put together a portfolio of samples relating to bookbinding, its materials and learn about colour and design.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Margaret Walker.

£411 inc VAT
MAY 2024
Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th 
&
Tuesday 14th -
Wedesday 15th
May
C&G Level 2
(Unit 221)
Certificate

Non Adhesive/Alternative Bindings (Online via ZOOM- 5 days)

This course is the second unit in the Level 2 C&G Certificate in Bookbinding. You will learn how to make a range of non-adhesive bindings, including a Coptic binding.  For those with some bookbinding experience. 

  •    Basic Kit (Course cost including materials and UK postage) £510 Inc VAT

OR

·         Full Kit (Course cost including tools, materials and UK postage) £648 Inc VAT

Taught by Myyn McColl

£510
or
£
648
Wednesday 15th-Thursday 16th May C&G Level 3
Diploma

 Fully Booked - Simple Paper Repairs (2 days) - Fully Booked

(Reserve list open)

When rebinding old books it will often be necessary to repair sections or tears - during this two-day course you will learn how to make simple paper repairs in various ways.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Christian Russel (from Shepherds Bookbinding)

£275 inc VAT
Monday 20th
to
Friday 24th
May
C&G Level 1
 (Unit 118)
 Award
  

Fully Booked - Beginners Bookbinding  (5 days) - Fully Booked

(Reserve list open)

Pamphlet and Multi-section bindings

For complete beginners’, this is the first unit in the Level 1 C&G Award in Bookbinding, where you will gain a core knowledge of the basic skills and make single and multi-section bindings in quarter, half and full cloth.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Mylyn McColl

£597 inc VAT
JUN 2024
Tuesday 4th
June
C&G Level I

 Beginners Bookbinding ~ Pamphlet Binding (1 day)

This taster course offers an opportunity to try one's hand at making a book.

This course will introduce students to the basic skills involved in creating a single signature book.  The course is aimed at beginners and will involve students making their own books; undertaking sewing, cutting and gluing all materials.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Mylyn McColl

 £110 inc VAT
Wednesday 12th to
Thursday 13th June
C&G Level 3
Diploma

 Library Style Binding (2 days)

A mandatory assignment in the C&G Level 3 curriculum.

 When books are likely to be used a great deal, or have a very heavy textlock library style binding will ensure greater durability and strength than a standard hardback case binding. During this course you will make a multi-section binding with split boards, hollow spine, cloth-jointed endpapers and reinforced corners all characteristics of a library style binding.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Mylyn McColl

£275 inc VAT
         
JUL 2024
Tuesday 2nd
to
Thursday 4th
&
Tuesday 8th
to
Wednesday 9th July
C&G Level 1
 (Unit 118)
 Award
  

Bookbinding for Beginners (On-line via Zoom) (5 days)

Pamphlet and Multi-section bindings

For complete beginners’, this is the first unit in the Level 1 C&G Award in Bookbinding, where you will gain a core knowledge of the basic skills and make single and multi-section bindings in quarter, half and full cloth.

  • (Basic Kit) Course cost including materials and UK postage £510 Inc VAT

OR

·         (Full Kit) Course cost including tools, materials and UK postage £648 Inc VAT

Taught by Mylyn McColl

£510
or
£648
Thursday 18th - Sunday 21st
July
C&G Level 3
Diploma

Laced on Binding (4 days)

A mandatory assignment in the C&G Level 3 curriculum.

 This course will teach you how to sew handsewn silk headbands, lace boards onto the sewing tapes/cords of a book, and cover a book in full leather by drawing it on.  Students should have at least completed the equivalent of Level 2 Bookbinding Unit.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Courtney Gregwah & Janet Rowe (from Shepherds Bookbinding)

£618 inc VAT
Monday 29th July
to
Friday 2nd
August
C&G Level I
(Unit 119)
Award

   Fully Booked - Photograph Album & Slipcase (5 days) - Fully Booked

(Reserve list open)

This course is the second unit necessary for the Level 1 C&G Award in Bookbinding, where you will learn how to make two different types of photograph album, one with folded guards, and one with stiff boards, and a lined cloth slipcase.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Mylyn McColl

 £597 inc VAT
AUG 2024
Monday 5th
to

Friday 9th
August
C&G Level 2
(Unit 221)
Certificate

 Non-Adhesive/Alternative style Bindings (5 days)

This course is the second unit in the Level 2 C&G Certificate in Bookbinding. You will learn how to make a range of non-adhesive bindings, including a Coptic binding.  For those with some bookbinding experience. 

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Lori Sauer

£597 inc VAT
         
SEPT 2024
Tuesday 3rd
to

Thursday 5th
September
C&G Level 3
Diploma

Fully Booked -  Repairing a Leather Bound Book (3 days) - Fully Booked

(Leather reback)

(Fully Booked - Reserve list open)

A mandatory assignment in the C&G Level 3 curriculum

Following on from cloth rebacking, this course will teach you the skills involved in sympathetically rebacking a leather book. These two courses combine as a mandatory assignment for the C&G Level 3 Diploma in Bookinding.  

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Lester Capon.

£410 inc VAT
Tuesday 10th
to
Wednesday 11th September
C&G Level 3
Diploma
Rebacking a Cloth Book (2 days)

One of the most usefull skills to learn if you are trying to make a living from bookbinding, this two-day course will teach you how to repair and reback cloth hardback bindings.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Mylyn McColl
£275 inc VAT
Thursday 12th
September
C&G Level 3
Diploma

Edge Decoration

Edges are another suraface for the binder's creativity to shine but they are often overlooked.  They act as an important protection barrier as well as being a key design element of a fine binding.  In this workshop, Kate will show you how to achieve the perfect glass smooth finish to your edges and work through a variety of decorative finishes.  From basic sprinkling and sponging through graphite, marbling, paste, guffereing and gold leaf.

Taught by Kate Holland.

£138 inc VAT
Tuesday 24th -Thursday 26th Sept
&
Tuesday 1st -
Wednesday 2nd Oct
C&G Level I
(Unit 119)
Award

Photograph Album & Slipcase - (Online Via ZOOM- 5 days)

This course is the second unit necessary for the Level 1 C&G Award in Bookbinding, where you will learn how to make two different types of photograph album, one with folded guards, and one with stiff boards, and a lined cloth slipcase.

·    (Basic Kit) - Course cost including materials and postage £510 Inc VAT

OR

·         (Full Kit) - Course cost including tools, materials and postage £648 Inc VAT

Taught by Mylyn McColl

£510 inc VAT
or
£648
inc VAT
Friday 27th
to
Sunday 29th
Sept
C&G Level 3
Diploma

Qtr-Vellum binding over boards with paper covered sides (Part I)

(Total Pt I & Pt II - 6 days)

An optional assignment in the C&G Level 3 curriculum, Part I of the Qtr-Vellum binding course where you will learn to make a laced-on hard binding with french groove, which will be covered with quarter vellum and decorative paper sides.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Kathy Abbott

Total price
PT I & II
£720 inc VAT
OCT 2024
Friday 4th
to
Sunday 6th October
C&G Level 3
Diploma

Qtr-Vellum binding over boards with paper covered sides (Part II)

(Total Pt I & Pt II - 6 days)

Part II of the Qtr-Vellum binding course where you will learn to make a laced-on hard binding with french groove, which will be covered with quarter vellum and decorative paper sides.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Kathy Abbott

Total price
PT I & II
£720 inc VAT
Tuesday 8th
to
Thursday 10th October
C&G Level 2
(Unit 201/202)
Certificate

  Design & Sampling (3 days)

This course is for those who would like to achieve a certificate in Level 1 or 2 Bookbinding and who have no previous arts experience.  You will put together a portfolio of samples relating to bookbinding, its materials and learn about colour and design.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Margaret Walker.

£411 inc VAT
Monday 14th
to
Friday 18th
October
C&G Level I
(Unit 119)
Award

   Photograph Album & Slipcase (5 days)

This course is the second unit necessary for the Level 1 C&G Award in Bookbinding, where you will learn how to make two different types of photograph album, one with folded guards, and one with stiff boards, and a lined cloth slipcase.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Mylyn McColl

 £597 inc VAT
Monday 28th
October
to
Friday 1st
Novembe
r
C&G Level 1
 (Unit 118)
 Award
  

 Beginners Bookbinding  (5 days)

Pamphlet and Multi-section bindings

For complete beginners’, this is the first unit in the Level 1 C&G Award in Bookbinding, where you will gain a core knowledge of the basic skills and make single and multi-section bindings in quarter, half and full cloth.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Mylyn McColl

£597 inc VAT
NOV 2024
Tuesday 12th -Thursday 14th
&
Tuesday 19th - Wednesday 20th November
C&G Level 2
(Unit 220) Certificate

 Half Leather Case Binding (Online via ZOOM- 5 days)

This course is the first unit in the Level 2 C&G Level 2 Certificate in Bookbinding. Using vegetable tanned leather from Harmatan or Hewits you will learn how to make a casebound leather books in quarter and half leather, and how to pare and sharpen knives.

Some bookbinding experience is necessary.  

·         Course cost including materials and UK postage £597 inc VAT

OR

·         Course cost including tools, materials and UK postage £654 inc VAT

Taught by Mylyn McColl 

£597 inc VAT
or
£654 inc VAT
         
DEC 2024
Monday 9th
to
Friday 13th December
C&G Level I
(Unit 119)
Award

   Photograph Album & Slipcase (5 days)

This course is the second unit necessary for the Level 1 C&G Award in Bookbinding, where you will learn how to make two different types of photograph album, one with folded guards, and one with stiff boards, and a lined cloth slipcase.

Price includes use of all tools and materials

Taught by Mylyn McColl

 £597 inc VAT
         
JAN-DEC
N/A   C&G Level 1 or 2
(Unit 201/202)
Certificate

Design & Sampling - Self-taught online course

This course is available as a free self paced on-line course.
Learn how to apply the design elements of colour theory, mark making, shape & form, texture & pattern and the design principles of contrast, proportion, balance and composition.
Suitable for anyone wishing to achieve the C&G Level 1 or 2 in Bookbinding.

Created by Diana Illingsworth-Cook   
Click here to access the link.
FREE
 
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