Classes at American Academy of Bookbinding

Conservation Classes with Don Etherington and Renate Mesmer

The American Academy of Bookbinding is offering several different
conservation classes this spring in Telluride, Colorado and Ann
Arbor, Michigan.

In Ann Arbor, Michigan at Hollander's, Don Etherington is teaching
two one-week courses, "Restoration of Cloth and Leather Bindings,"
May 17-21, and "Rebacking of Leather Bindings," May 24-28. Each
class offers intensive instruction and hands-on practice in repair
and meets 9am-5pm. Following these two weeks, Don will teach two
weeks of "Finishing," May 31-June 11, focusing on spine lettering
with gold foil and gold leaf using hand tools, tooling using gold
and blind techniques, and tooling and simple onlays and inlays on
plaquettes. Don Etherington is Director of Conservation at AAB, and
founded the Etherington Conservation Center in Greensboro, NC.

Renate Mesmer, Assistant Head of Conservation at the Folger
Shakespeare Library, will teach "Basics in Paper Conservation,"
April 19-23 and "Sewing Structures," April 26-30 in Telluride,
Colorado. Both classes offer an introduction to conservation and
provide in-depth and hands-on study, and are the entry level classes
for students wishing to pursue a diploma in conservation. Renate
Mesmer is the former Director of the Book and Paper Conservation
Program a the Centro del bel Libro in Ascona, Switzerland.

For more information on these and other AAB classes, visit

    <URL:http://www.ahhaa.org/academy-bookbinding/>

or contact aab<-at->ahhaa<.>org

Judy Kohin, administrative director
American Academy of Bookbinding
970-728-8649


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