March 7th meeting

Gwenda Culkin, just returned from Nepal came to talk to us about the Nepalese Childrens Trust
Established in 2003  the charity was initially set up by ladies living within the East midlands region to provide a library for the Prisoners Assistance Nepal Children’s Home in Kathmandu, The Nepalese Children’s Trust has expanded its work to meet local needs as they arise.The charity is also helping Kanchha Babu Sherpa from Melamchighyang to attend university to become a doctor to enable him to return and help the local people.

Following the work done for the Prisoners’ Assistance Homes,   work extended to the school in Melamchigyang. a two day trek from Kathmandu. There is no electricity or running water in the area, and all supplies have to be carried in as there are no roads to the area.

News and events

Booking opened at this meeting for our May 10th workshop with Dionne Swift.
Dionne will take us through screen printing onto fabric. Please pay in full at time of booking

Lutterworth Enbroiderers Guild invite you to a costume presentation bt teh History Wardrobe - Agatha Christy and Art Deco. Saturday 20th April 2013 £12. contact marilyn Hemsley@btinternet.com 01455 554564

Matt Edwards from Derby City Museums came to run a mini workshop on Japanese stab binding for our Fenruary meeting, and final event at Eastwood Hall.

Matt has a Fine Art background, but discovered book binding whilst at university through RGAP originally based at Derby University.

Bookbinding is the process of fastening together the multiple pages which make up a given book, and covering the result.

Matt talked us through a little of the history and terminology of binding - Forwarders were the serwers and usually female (no surprise there) followed up by the binders (usually male..)
Traditionally, the craft of bookbinding is divided into the areas of forwarding and finishing. Forwarding consists of all the procedures leading up to the decoration of the covers. That is, folding the leaves into pages and gathering into signatures or quires, sewing them together, adding endpapers, attaching boards, and covering. In other words, the binding proper. Finishing is a specialized field involving gold (or blind) tooling, and sometimes inlay and onlay work: the artistic embellishment of the binding.

Caterpillar stitch

Here is a tutorial for a bookbinding stitch - 10 minutes - if you manage it lets see the results next meeting!