For complete beginners, this is the first unit in the Level 1 C&G certificate in Bookbinding, where you will gain a core knowledge of the basic skills and make single and multi-section bindings in quarter, half and full cloth.

Complementing the leather rebacking, this course will teach you the fine skills involved in sympathetically rebacking a cloth book.  These two courses combine as a mandatory assignment for the C&G Level 3 Diploma in Bookbinding.

For those with a little bookbinding experience, this course is the second unit necessary for the Level 1 C&G certificate in Bookbinding, where you will learn how to make two different types of photograph album, one with folded guards, and one with stiff boards, and a lined cloth slipcase. COURSE CANCELLED

This course is the first unit in the Level 2 C&G certificate in Bookbinding. You will learn how to make casebound leather books in quarter and half leather, and how to pare leather and sharpen knives.  Some bookbinding experience is necessary. COURSE CANCELLED

This session introduces people to the basics of bookbinding and gives them a taster of the craft and enables them to make a small notebook. 10.00am to midday in the Avon room. COURSE CANCELLED

Part of our Storage and Enclosures programme for C&G Level 3, you will learn to make a classic artist’s portfolio with three inner flaps and ribbon ties, and a lift-off lid/chocolate box.  Some bookbinding experience is necessary. COURSE CANCELLED To book a place on the above course please email: [email protected] 

This two-day assignment is part of the Storage and Enclosures module for Level 3 bookbinding.  You will learn how to make a slipcase with a chamfered, rounded, leather entry. If taking the C&G course the slipcase would be made to hold your laced on leather binding. COURSE CANCELLED

Part 1. An optional assignment in the C&G Level 3 curriculum, where you will learn to make a laced-on hard binding with a French groove, which will be covered with quarter vellum and decorative sides. COURSE CANCELLED