LIBROS Study Group
The LIBROS Bookbinding Study Group was board-approved in 2005 to encourage those who wanted the challenge of learning new bookbinding techniques and structures beyond the time limitations of the regular meeting.
In August 2011, the Bookbinding Study Group will begin to calendar their schedule for 2011-2012. The calendar is divided in two-month segments and members of the group choose the dates and the projects for the remainder of the group. It is expected that participants will have the basic bookbinding skills behind them and then can enjoy working with others on bookbinding and book arts activities. Study group members are asked to participate on a regular basis and to prepare and offer presentations, rotating through the schedule with all other participants in the group.
During the past year, the group studied Daniel Kelm’s wire edge binding, Keith Smith’s exposed spine bindings, making woodcuts and using the boards as covers as well as exchanging prints with others in the group, variations on Hedi Kyle’s Secret Belgian Binding, the checkerboard binding, pop-ups, embellishing metal covers, and various methods of closures.
If you are not on the BBSG e-mail list to participate, and would like to join us, please e-mail Carol Erickson at
Members of the LIBROS Bookbinding Study Group discuss their next project.
LIBROS Study Group News
2009 Woodcut Book Project
LIBROS President Dale Harris was the Study Group leader for an ambitious September 2009 project: Nine artists would carve two woodblocks each, and make enough prints to share with the other participants. Each artist would then use the woodblocks for the front and back covers of the resulting book. The books were bound with Coptic stitching. Everyone who participated ended up with a fabulous book and collection of prints! This project will be featured in Bound & Lettered magazine, Spring 2010. You can download as a PDF associated figures showing how to create the woodcut book signatures (PDF).
Join the Study Group
If you are a current member and would like to join the Bookbinding Study Group, please email:
Carol Erickson
Visual Journals Group
There is a new special interest group in LIBROS organized for the study and exploration of Visual Journals. The group will operate in general like the Bookbinding Study Group but will meet monthly and have a time limit of one year.
Meetings began in July 2011 and are scheduled for the third Saturday of each month at 1:30pm at the Artisan’s classroom. Artisan’s is located at 3017 Monte Vista Blvd. NE, at the corner of Monte Vista and Richmond NE, one block north of Central.
Joint coordinators for the Visual Journals Group are Jo Bryant () and Annie Hooten (). Either would be happy to provide further information or answer any questions you might have.