Thursday, September 15, 2016

Dos Rapporte in Stone Veneer
Two-day workshop with Coleen Curry
November 5-6, 2016
9:00a-5:00p
Denver Bookbinding Company
1401 W. 47th Ave, Denver, CO 80211
Dos Rapporte is a flat back binding sewn on tapes with attached boards and lift off spine with basic sewing. Students will sew a text block, tip on end sheets, make boards and spine piece and assemble. Yes, we’re using real stone veneer! Basic understanding of binding and good grasp of measurement and attention to detail is required.

About our instructor
Coleen Curry bound her first book in 2003 in Colorado and was hooked. She then became a student of Monique Lallier at the American Academy of Bookbinding (AAB) and graduated in 2009 with a diploma in Fine Binding. Coleen has studied with Eleanore Ramsey, Dominic Riley and Hélène Jolis. Coleen teaches at AAB and is also an assistant to Don Glaister. She is a Board member of the San Francisco Center for the Book and a past President of the Hand Bookbinders of California. Coleen has exhibited internationally and her work is held in private collections. She is Canadian and lives in Muir Beach, CA with her husband, where she crafts design bindings, runs trails and rock climbs in her free time.

Registration fee
$175/GBW members
$200/general
$40 materials fee 

Questions: contact Martha Rome, martha.g.rome.cambridge@gmail.com
Register online: https://gbw.formstack.com/forms/dosrapport
Limited to 10 registrants.