I thought members may be interested in these lectures from the Bodleian Library.

Glenn Malkin explores a range of techniques used in contemporary bookbinding to decorate leather or cloth covers, including airbrushing, spraying and sprinkling. He demonstrates leather onlay techniques along with the use of impressed leather to create texture and pattern. Glenn also touches upon traditional gold tooling and tooling with carbon.

Glenn Malkin has been a professional binder for 15 years working from his bindery in East Yorkshire. He has won numerous national and international awards for his design bindings and was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2022. Glenn also teaches bookbinding at short workshops and by individual tuition. See: https://signaturebindings.co.uk

Day 1, Session 1 of Designer Bookbinders Festival at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK.
The event was held at Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library on Friday 8 July 2022.
Part of the celebrations to mark the opening of the exhibition “A Gathering of Leaves – the fourth Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022”.



An illustrated talk by Kate Holland covering the greatest hits of bookbinding design in Britain from the 8th century until the present day and a look to the future of the craft of bookbinding in the digital age and the elevation of the finely bound book to revered art object based on interviews with international collectors, auction houses, dealers, binderies and institutions.

Kate Holland is a multi award-winning artist bookbinder, a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, a Master Artisan in the Homo Faber guide and a regular binder to the Booker prize. She teaches bookbinding at West Dean, Shepherds and through DB’s Transferring Design programme. Her current goal is to get a single UK college to offer a course in bookbinding.

Day 1, Session 2 of Designer Bookbinders Festival at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK.
The event was held at Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library on Friday 8 July 2022.
Part of the celebrations to mark the opening of the exhibition “A Gathering of Leaves – the fourth Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022”.

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A demonstration showing a minimalist flat-tight back binding, incorporating laminated board attachment to cloth covered boards. The demonstration includes applied mixed media, and a Drum leaf Text Block. This is an introduction to a combination artist’s book that explores traditional and contemporary aspects.

Discovering his passion for bookbinding and book arts whilst working in Paris in the late 1980s, Mark Cockram enrolled on the bookbinding course at Guildford College, graduating in 1992. Mark’s oeuvre is exploratory and diverse being exhibited internationally with work represented in public and private collections. Since being elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, Mark has been a regular binder for The Booker Prize.

Day 1, Session 3 of Designer Bookbinders Festival at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK.
The event was held at Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library on Friday 8 July 2022.
Part of the celebrations to mark the opening of the exhibition “A Gathering of Leaves – the fourth Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022”.

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Andrew Honey explores recent accessions to the Bodleian Library and the often-playful ways that book artists have approached concepts of both books and book bindings. It also considers the challenges that these may pose for research libraries and conservators.

Andrew Honey is a book conservator at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, responsible for major projects, research and teaching, and complex book conservation treatments. In 2020 he was appointed Conservation Inspector to the Mappa Mundi Trust.

Day 1, Session 4 of Designer Bookbinders Festival at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK.
The event was held at Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library on Friday 8 July 2022.
Part of the celebrations to mark the opening of the exhibition “A Gathering of Leaves – the fourth Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022”.

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A demonstration by Glenn Bartley of how to cover a book with calf vellum (parchment).

Glenn Bartley is a professional bookbinder and gold finisher. He trained at Guildford and Oxford establishing his own workshop in Culham, Oxfordshire in 1991. Winner of the 1996 DB Bookbinding Competition, Glenn was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 1999. He is currently Head of the Royal Bindery at Windsor Castle.

Day 2, Session 1 of Designer Bookbinders Festival at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK.
The event was held at Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library on Saturday 9 July 2022.
Part of the celebrations to mark the opening of the exhibition “A Gathering of Leaves – the fourth Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022”.

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An illustrated talk by Edward Bayntun-Coward on the ethics, economics and efforts of rebinding books.

Edward Bayntun-Coward is the owner of George Bayntun, the bookshop and bindery established by his great-grandfather in Bath in 1894. He has been Chairman of the Bath Preservation Trust and five museums, including the Holburne Museum.

Day 2, Session 2 of Designer Bookbinders Festival at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK.
The event was held at Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library on Saturday 9 July 2022.
Part of the celebrations to mark the opening of the exhibition “A Gathering of Leaves – the fourth Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022”.

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