In-person workshop at the bindery in Scarborough, ON

94 Crockford Blvd, #2, Scarborough, ON M1L 3C3, Canada

Sat & Sun, Sept 16 & 17
9:00 am to 4:00 pm with a 1 hour lunch

Registration $250 + $40 materials fee = CAD $290.00

Instructor: Andrew Huot

Preservation Enclosures

Do you work at a library or are you a collector of materials that are fragile or rare, and want a better set of options for housing them safely?

Join us for Preservation Enclosures. We’ll be learning about the tools and materials you’ll need to make boxes and enclosures for a variety of materials. During the workshop, we’ll concentrate on a variety of box and enclosures. Once the workshop is completed, you’ll have several options to protect your books and papers.

In this course you will learn:

How to measure your books and papers for an enclosure.
How to judge the best materials to use for preservation enclosures.
How to create eight (6) enclosures for a variety of materials.
Skills to make and adapt the structures for any book or collection.

Level of Experience / Skills Required

All levels; no prior book-making experience required. Some comfort with accurate measuring, folding, and cutting with blades/knives will be helpful to master the skills taught in this workshop.

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