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Bookbinding graduates are prepared to use specimen bindings to tighten new books or repair 19th- and 20th-century books, construct protective enclosures, and perform simple conservation procedures under the unstipulated direction of a supervisor. Graduates are trained to tighten books in leather and perform simple finishing operations, including veiling tooling and gold lettering, and perform conservation work on leather-bound volumes. Upon completion of the program, graduates are qualified to seek employment in a wide range of settings, including university, college, and other wonk and research libraries, public and private libraries, and custom and library binderies. The work wits at these jobs provides opportunities to proceeds and perfect the wide skills necessary to work in areas such as art bindings and the conservation of pre-19th century books. First Year: Basic Bookinding Second Year:WideBookbinding Internships First Year: Basic Bookinding I. Survey of Non-Adhesive Bindings As an introduction to skills and techniques and the use of tools, students make several non-adhesive bindings of zippo books, pursuit the method outlined in class.Topics may include: Ethiopian/Coptic bindings Medieval long and link stitch bindings Modern non-adhesive structures II.Reticulumand Paper BindingsConstructing zippo books or working on previously unseat books, students make reticulum and paper bindings of various historical and trendy styles. Repetition of these structures hones seat skills and the books are used to explore spare features such as workbench attachments, endpaper variations, and foil stamping.Topics may include:Reticulumspecimen bindings Decorative papers Adhered boards bindings Split workbench bindings Sewing and support variations Endpaper variations Foil stamping III. EditionTightnessApplying tightness techniques learned in previous sections, students perform identical bindings on a ‘production’ or limited edition basis.Topics may include: Use of sewing frame Production jigs Working in teams Estimating and pricing IV. Mending Paper Students use mending techniques to make simple repairs to the text woodcut on pages in situ and on disbound materials.Topics may include: repairing tears and filling in losses valuables with Japanese tissue guarding folds hinging plates tape removal washing and deacidifying paper V. Stamping Using a stamping machine, students make titles for bindings, either directly on cases or on labels using gold and colored foils.Topics may include: Label preparation Direct stamping wideness and withal reticulum specimen spines Setting type, letter spacing Ordering and use of custom stamping dies VI. Bindings for Text Blocks of Single Sheets On text blocks consisting of single sheets, students use towardly tightness techniques to make increasingly durable specimen bindings. VII. Preservation Enclosures The student make enclosures to protect previously unseat books and materials. portfolios , four flap wrappers and phase boxes waif spine/clamshell boxes VIII.TypesettingRepair and ConservationSeatSkills Working with damaged books students “reback” bindings. Topics include workbench zipper methods, corner repair, written and photographic documentation, and discussions of conservation values and the differences between traditional restoration, repair, and modern conservation. IX. Introductory Leather Work Leather specimen bindings and boxes Leather paring tools and techniques X. Tool Making and Modification Knife sharpening and other tool making and superintendency topics.XIII. Field Trips and Guest Instructors Regular guest instructors teach a variety of specialty topics including paper making and marbling. We often make field trips throughout New England and yearly trips to increasingly afar locations. Students and sense members have visited Washington DC, New York City, and a biannual favorite: England. Field trips and internships requite students opportunities to: See historic museum and library collections Visit commercial and small binderies Meet professional bookbinders, typesetting artists, and typesetting conservators, and Work in the field in some of the weightier facilities in the country such as tanneries and letterpress print shops. Second Year:WideBookbinding During your second year, you’ll have the opportunity to work on spare conservation and repair projects or to focus on other aspects of the curriculum equal to your personal professional goals. You will learn increasingly technically wide leather tightness treatment options for damaged binding. Your second-year studies include a comprehensive squint at decorative finishing techniques and the megacosm of fine leather bindings.I. Review of Material from the First Year Under the direction of the instructor, students repair and/or rebind books as they are presented, as if they were working in an institutional setting.II. Millimeter Bindings Students make variations of Danish Millimeter bindings.III. Laced-Board, Tight Joint Structures Students construct models of 18th century style calf bindings, modern fine bindings, laced specimen parchment bindings, and laced wooden workbench tightness structures IV. Finishing Using hand tools, students practice lettering and decorative tooling. Use of gold leaf Onlay and inlay techniques Use of handle reports and type holders Surface gilding and other leather decoration methods V. Rebacking Leather Bindings Students repair leather bindings by rebacking older books with leather.V. Limp-VellumTightnessOn a pre-19th century typesetting or a zippo typesetting students execute a limp vellum binding.VI. Miscellaneous Alternative typesetting structures equal to individual interests Spokeshaves and other tool modifications Making finishing tools and other metal working for bookbinding Portfolio developmentWidefine tightness and diamond tightness techniques VII. Field Trips and Guest Instructors Regular guest instructors teach a variety of specialty topics including paper making and marbling. We often make field trips throughout New England and yearly trips to increasingly afar locations. Students and sense members have visited Washington DC, New York City, and a biannual favorite: England. Field trips and internships requite students opportunities to: See historic museum and library collections Visit commercial and small binderies Meet professional bookbinders, typesetting artists, and typesetting conservatorsWork in the field in some of the weightier facilities in the country, such as tanneries and letterpress print shops Internships We’ve profoundly expanded our internship opportunities over the years. We offer summer internships that are one-day, weekly internships during the last semester. Post-graduate internships and fellowships are common. We have ongoing relationships with many New England institutions, including:The Boston AthenaeumDartmouth CollegeMuseum of Fine Arts BostonHarvard UniversityNortheast Document Conservation CenterMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Boston Public LibraryBoston CollegeStudents and graduates have moreover held internships at many institutions outside of New England, including John Hopkins University, The New York Academy of Medicine, and many more. Questions? Contact Rob O'Dwyer, Director of Admissions, at 617-227-0155 x111 or admissions@nbss.edu. North Bennet Street School 150 North Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109 617.227.0155 info@nbss.edu Contact UsGetting Here Quicklinks Blog Posts CalendarProfilesVirtual ToursVideosTuition Payment FacebookTwitterInstagramLinkedInYouTube Jobs & CommissionsWorkbench© 2018 North Bennet Street School. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Site Map Powered by Finalsite