British Library Centre for Conservation (BLCC) Summer Workshops: Twined end-bands in the bookbinding traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean
Twined end-bands often also called woven end-bands represent a distinct category of rather elaborate compound end-bands commonly found in one variation or the other in virtually all the bookbinding traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean. Within the ‘British Library Centre for Conservation (BLCC) Summer workshops’ we are pleased to present this unique immersive, hands-on workshop at Foyle Venue in the British Library Centre for Conservation (BLCC) London. Twelve participants will have the opportunity to work with tutor Giorgios Boudalis (Head of the Book and Paper Conservation Studio at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki/Greece) during the five day workshop, scheduled for July 23 - 27, 2018. The workshop will give the opportunity to conservators and bookbinders, with already a sound understanding and hands on experience in making/sewing book end-bands to learn and make at least six different twined end-bands –a Coptic, an Islamic, a Syriac, a Byzantine, an Armenian, and a tablet woven end-band style that participants will be able to take away with them at the end of the course. An introductory lecture will also explain their evolution in time and place, their classification and terminology, their structural and decorative features as well as their relation to fabric-making techniques. Working materials, a hand out with explanatory drawings and some reading material will be also provided For booking go to: https://www.bl.uk/events/twined-end-bands-in-the-bookbinding-traditions-of-the-eastern-mediterranean ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
