Workshop Instructor: Kathy Abbott
Workshop Dates: February 10 - 11, 2017
Workshop Time: 9:30AM - 5:30PM
Workshop Location: 1890 Bryant Street, San Francisco, 94110

"Surely it is better to create tomorrow's past than to repeat today's"
Edgar Mansfield (1907-1996)

The starting point for this two-day course will be to look at the work of Tomorrow’s Past* and the innovative book structures that have been created by this group. 

After a short power-point lecture, you will learn how to make a ‘Clip-on-Cover Binding’ – one of the structures devised by Kathy Abbott – on a blank book.

This paper-covered binding is fully reversible, uses no adhesive, and is perfect for making at home with limited tools or equipment.  Variations in the basic technique and other materials such as vellum, textiles or leather could be used - the possibilities are endless!

*Tomorrow’s Past is the collective name for a group of bookbinders that make modern conservation bindings for antiquarian books. The group has exhibited at the Antiquarian Bookfair, Olympia, London, UK; the Paris Bookfair, at the SOB conferences in Warwick and at the Aram Gallery, London, UK.

BIOGRAPHY

Kathy Abbott served a four-year apprenticeship in bookbinding and then gained a Higher National Diploma from the London College of Printing, London followed by a BA (Hons) degree in Bookbinding from Roehampton University, Surrey. She teaches advanced level Fine Binding at the City Lit, London, short courses at West Dean College, Chichester and conducts many other workshops across the UK and overseas.  She is a founder member of the group: Tomorrow's Past and is the author of Bookbinding: A step-by-step guide, published by the Crowood Press in 2010.

Her work is held in both private and public collections, including The British Library, London, and her work is exhibited widely: most recently at Covered, a Designer Bookbinders selling exhibition at the St. Bride Foundation, London. You can see her work on her website: www.kathyabbott.biz