Conference on flexible bindings

Conference on flexible bindings
Theatre Biekorf
Bruges
Friday June 17, 2016
9am-5pm

Cores symposium on how to deal with flexible bindings, Coptic
bindings and register bindings.

How to keep quires together in an envelope or binding?  The question
sounds simple whereas the answer is not.  Over and over again, new
methods were devised: simple and complex, flexible or tight, with
leather, textile or parchment.  Of course, complex book
constructions and decorated treasure binding draw our attention.
However, especially flexible bindings with simple structures are
stacked massively in our archives and libraries.  For centuries,
these have been neglected.  Only in the last couple of years, these
have drawn the attention of collection managers, restorers and
researchers.  And that interest is rewarded.  Those who work with
simple bindings, discover rich and complex stories.

This symposium does justice to the fascinating world of simple
bindings.  The different perspectives that are covered are:
terminology, techniques and structures in bindings, conservation and
restoration, history, contemporary binding creations.  International
experts give lectures, restorers share their experiences on specific
restorations, and archives and libraries in Bruges show their
bindings in house.

With this symposium, CORES Bruges aims to create a biennial platform
for knowledge exchange among restorers of books and archives, in
close collaboration with collection managers and experts in paper
heritage.

CORES was founded as a competence platform for conservation and
restoration of books and archives by Syntra West vzw and heritage
institutions (archives and libraries) in Bruges.

Practical information: contact address and website symposium

    Organisation: Cores and cores partner
    cores<-at->syntrawest<.>be
    <URL:http://www.coressymposium.be>

Tom Demeyere
Opleidingscoardinator Sport and Gezondheid
Commercieel coardinator Personenverzorging
Syntra West Groep
Oostnieuwkerksesteenweg 111
8800 Roeselare
+32 78 353 653
Fax: +32 51 26 87 59


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