HBC Classes and workshops
WORKSHOPS are offered several times a year, either at teachers' studios or at the San Francisco Center for the Book, with hands-on instruction in techniques, book structures, paper decorating, equipment maintenance and many other topics. Open to all those who are interested.
The S.F. CENTER FOR THE BOOK serves as the venue for many HBC workshops. The Center houses letterpress and bookbinding equipment and a resource library.
The next class features:
Gabrielle Fox's
“Panoramic Miniature and False Floor Box”
A SPECIAL WORKSHOP IN SAN FRANCISCO
October 27 and 28, Tuesday and Wednesday of the Guild of Book Workers “Standards Week” in San Francisco
9:30 – 5:30
at San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB)
Register for this class
or call 415-565-0545 ext 10 · Monday - Friday, 9:30 am-5 pm
Cost $375 Materials fee $35
Making and designing miniature bindings can be a challenge in scope, but there are ways to broaden the horizon. The design or image of a binding can be wrapped from the front flyleaf and all around to the back flyleaf. The picture can become even broader with boards that are connected panels in a concertina or folded up structure. This book will be placed in a box we will make with a false floor that raises the book for removal without damaging the binding.
‘Gabrielle Fox, trained in England, is a leading expert and artisan in the binding, conservation and restoration of fine books.
Her true passion and forte is miniature books,
and beyond her work in conservation and restoration,
she finds her creative outlet in designing and producing unique bindings and boxes for miniature letterpress books.
She travels from her studio in Ohio to teach intensive workshops,
and consults and cares for both institutional and private book collections.
Her work is currently exhibited nationally’.
Becky Williams Thomas
