NSW Guild of Craft Bookbinders in Lilyfield, New South Wales, Australia | Non-profit organisation

NSW Guild of Craft Bookbinders

Locality: Lilyfield, New South Wales, Australia

Address: Ralph Lewis Bindery, Garry Owen House, Callan Park 2039 Lilyfield, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.nswbookbinders.org

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25.01.2022 Saturday’s Brush Lettering class was a really fun and relaxed day of creativity. After spending the morning practicing foundation steps we played in the afternoon with a variety of templates, hand lettering Xmas greetings and using the exercises to make patterns for beautiful wrapping paper. (Perfect for those committed to recycling/upcycling!) Everyone agreed that practice is so much easier when you can create something useful from it, taking home a set of practice sheets and cut-outs to use in their own time. We look forward to seeing their progress. New classes will be scheduled in 2021 - come along and find out how learning Brush Lettering opens up a whole new world of possibilities! #bookarts #calligraphy #christmasgifts #moderncalligraphy, #brushlettering #brushletteringpractice

25.01.2022 Personalise a gift for a friend.. make it special... Brush lettering just in time for Christmas. This coming Saturday. Book now! https://www.nswbookbinders.org//brush-lettering-just-in-ti #bookbinding #moderncalligraphy #calligraphy #bookarts #christmasgifts

24.01.2022 One of the challenges for beginners in brush lettering is finding the discipline to practice. The repetitive exercises that help create the thin upstrokes and thick downstrokes of good brush lettering are not always very interesting and the temptation is to skip them before you’re ready. Thus you may struggle to make progress and become disheartened. In this class we turn it around and make the exercises fun. Not only will you get some good practice but you can create beautiful gift cards, tags and Xmas tree hangers from your efforts.

23.01.2022 My Booker 2020Work In Progress Designer Bookbinders were really pleased to be able to unveil the six bindings done for this year’s Booker Prize for Fiction f...inalists last week. But these bindings don’t just make themselves so we asked the seven Fellows (seven because this year one of the bindings was done collectively by two Fellows) to document their work in progress so we could show what steps go into making a fine binding for this prestigious literary competition. This year the binders were: Kate Holland, Derek Hood, Stuart Brockman, Lori Sauer, Rachel Ward-Sale, Sue Doggett and Dominic Riley. One the next six days we will be posting up these work in progress photos, which also appear in our Winter newsletter. In the short period between shortlist announcement and the award ceremony, the binders must read, design and produce a hand bound fine binding, together with a protective container, for presentation to each of the authors. A process which might normally take three to four months or more has to be telescoped into as many weeks, but it is this which makes the commission such an interesting one for those taking part. Today we feature the binding of ‘Shuggie Bain’ by Douglas Stuart (Winner of this year’s Booker Prize) which was bound by Derek Hood and Kate Holland. This series of work in progress photos shows the many stages that went into this binding including: - Gilded book edges - The leather joints being put down - The book was covered in full biscuit-coloured goatskin - A geometric shape was cut out and peeled from the covering leather - Inlays were glued into place (including faux shagreen) - The binding was hand tooled with dots, plus the title was hand-tooled onto the spine - Gilding was also applied to the endpapers The main inspiration for the design is the housing estate Sighthill in Glasgow where we first meet Agnes and Shuggie, the pebble dash and blues and greys of the high rise buildings, and on the top floor Agnes leans out of her window gazing down on the carpet of Glasgow. On the back cover elements of black and white for Shug with the red light of his receding taxi cab. Over both loom the colliery wheels of Pithead depicted in a myriad of gold dots. Inside Elizabeth Taylor, Agnes’s heroine and touchstone, watches over a Sighthill walkway whilst a gilded beer can stain lies opposite. @douglas_stuart @picadorbooks @panmacmillan @katehollandbook #FinestFiction #shortlist #bookstagram #instabooks #amreading #igreads #author #fiction #TheBookerPrizes #DouglasStuart #ShuggieBain #KateHolland #DerekHood #2020BookerPrize #bookbinding #workofabookbinder #bindingthebooker #finebinding #designbinding #boundbythebest

22.01.2022 Yesterday, Wednesday open access day and I started getting the type corner into order. A "new" type poster up on the wall and the mixed pots of spaces have been sorted back into their point size. If you are using doing blocking please sort the type and the spaces back into the correct drawers, pots etc, etc. if makes the whole system usable for others. #bookbinding #bookarts

22.01.2022 It is not too late to enter your books into the RAS comeptition. Bookbinding categories are on p.21 of the schedule. Remember if you can't get there to drop off your books drop them into the Ralph Lewis Bindery by Wednesday 17th March. B O O K B I N D I N G... Maximum of one entry per Class. CLASS 262-Cased-in-Binding. Bookblock may be multi sections or single sheets. May be pre-sewn. Case may be leather, cloth or paper.Prize 1st $50 CLASS 263-Letterpress style leather binding: Boards must be laced on, using tapes or cords. Binding may be quarter, half or full style. Prize 1st $50 CLASS 264-Any other style of bound book e.g. non-adhesive structure, single section, stub binding, limp binding, cross-structure binding, accordion binding, coptic binding, exposed sewing. Must function as a book. Prize 1st $50 Important Dates: Entries close 29 Jan 2021 Delivery days (9am-4pm) 19-20 Mar 2021 Sydney Royal Easter Show 1-12 Apr 2021 Collection days (9am-4pm) 16-17 Apr 2021 http://www.rasnsw.com.au/sydney-royal-compet//arts--craft/

21.01.2022 The Morocco Bound Winter 2021 edition is out now. Members of Australian guild recieve a copy free. If you haven't received a copy please get in touch with your Guild. The Guilds also have printable files on request. For NSW Guild members there are b/w print copies at the Ralph Lewis Bindery. Plesase come by and pick one up or ask for a copy to be sent.... To subscribe go to: https://www.nswbookbinders.org/category/publications

20.01.2022 New on the website: What's on at the Ralph Lewis Bindery. You can check open access days and courses for the current and coming month here. It will be updated every month. https://www.nswbookbinders.org//what-s-on-at-the-ralph-lew

19.01.2022 DROP DEAD GORGEOUS: Fine Bindings of La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation - Minnesota Center for Book Arts (mnbookarts.org) Looking for inspiration?? https://www.mnbookarts.org/drop-dead-gorgeous-virtual-exhi/

19.01.2022 Preparing for the RAS Arts and Craft Show. Over the next couple of days I'm going to run through the 3 bookbinding categories you can enter a book in. In all categories the attention is on the style of binding not the design of the cover. First up is Case Binding or Cased in Binding.... CLASS 262 - Cased-in-Binding. Bookblock may be multi sections or single sheets. May be pre-sewn. Case may be leather, cloth or paper. Prize 1st $50 #RASartsandcrafts #bookbinding #casebinding

19.01.2022 Paper for sale! https://fb.me/e/1fdWfS9ce

18.01.2022 https://dpie.mysocialpinpoint.com.au/callan-park For all of you who are interested in the future of Callan Park this link takes you to the NSW Government website where you can download 2 key documents relating to the Landscape Structure Plan. Garry Owen House, where the Ralph Lewis bindery is situated, is in a heritage area. The main point is that the NSW Government seems to be sticking to its commitment to keep this park for the use of the local people.... Thank you for John Newland (life member) for sending it through to us.

17.01.2022 This coming Saturday MEMBERS DAY: PROJECT DAY. You can just show up with a project to work on. https://www.nswbookbinders.org//march-members-day-project- #bookarts #bookbinding

13.01.2022 Learn about "washi" i.e. Japanese paper. This website includes videos of paper making etc. #bookbinding #japanesepaper #washi https://www.washiarts.com/learn

13.01.2022 In amongst the boxes of donations from binders this interesting tool came in... a small roller made of solid steel. Is this a bookbinding tool? If so, what was it used for? #bookbinding #bookbindingtools #metalroller #thisiscute #finishingtools

13.01.2022 New course. One day. "Simple leather bindings: Exploring the Cover". This course is an introduction to leather and cover design. https://www.nswbookbinders.org//simple-leather-binding-exp... #bookarts #bookbinding #designerbinding #designbinding

13.01.2022 The Atlas Project continues... We are still struggling with the commercial hot melt glue. we finished sewing tapes to the spine of one book.

12.01.2022 Sale of conservation workshop/ bindery Elwing & Gurney Archival, Book and Document Conservation Services, Lawson NSW 2783 ABN 34 143 821 380 [email protected] Elwing & Gurney, located at Lawson in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, has been in operation for 27 years.... Our business premises has five air-conditioned work areas, including a photographic room. It also has a wet room and dust-free materials storage room. The unit was built in 2007, with basic internal spaces of 8.2m x 17.3m = 141 m2 floor + 50 m2 mezzanine. We offer the functioning workshop, with most equipment, for sale to a book and document conservator, bookbinder or book artist/printmaker, photographer. We will retain our identity, core equipment and clientele, but reduce professional commitments to accomplish various other projects. We seek expressions of interest around $475,000 for the premises, depending on how much equipment, stock, or reference library is to be included in the sale. In the absence of any professional interest, we will, in the course of time, sell the unit as industrial vacant premises and disperse equipment etc. which is no longer required. James Elwing Jill Gurney, October 2020 #binderyforsale #bookbinding #bookrepair #handcrafts #bluemountainsaustralia #opportunity #workshopforsale

11.01.2022 I haven't been a fan of learning from online bookbinding, but watching Darryn's clearly produced videos, I realise, in this world of weekend courses, they could be a great back up, revision and complement to hands on workshops. Darryn is actively involved in teaching at the Queensland Guild. He is not spruiking products! Check out DAS bookbinding . com... #bookarts #bookbinding #bookbindingcourses

06.01.2022 Only two places left in the February Book Repair Clinic with John Turner. If you want to come along book now! https://www.nswbookbinders.org//book-repair-with-john-turn #bookbinding #bookrepair #bookrestoration #prelovedbooks

06.01.2022 The tidying and streamlining of the blocking press area in the Bindery continued today. David, Edwin and Simon made huge process. All presses were turned on and the power didn't blow! #bookbinding #blocking #bookarts

04.01.2022 We all want to put a book into the binding competition at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, right? They are running behind time. I contacted the RAS Arts and Crafts and this update came as the reply: An announcement will be made very early December with regards to opening of competitions (and closing), and details of the Show. The Show dates will be 1-12 April. The Schedule 2021 remains unchanged, apart from key dates, but has not been finalised so is not available. ... Any exhibit intended for the 2020 Show may be entered into the 2021 Show. This is the link to watch. https://www.rasnsw.com.au//c/arts--craft/key-dates--schedu

03.01.2022 The Flexible Sketchbook class went well. 8 students left with a new book. In this class we give students a choice of paper and size and point out the different ways the paper can be folded to increase the options of final page size. Squares vary, covering materials vary. It's about personal preference. Next course is in March 2021. Book early! https://nswbookbinders.bigcartel.com/pr/flexible-sketchbook

03.01.2022 Brush LetteringJust in time for Christmas! Don't just watch the movie, do the class! A day of fun. https://www.nswbookbinders.org//brush-lettering-just-in-ti

02.01.2022 We need to remember this in the level 3 rounded and backed case binding!