Teaching

DB/SoB Joint Weekend Workshops

Leather Decorating Techniques

Tutor: Nicky Oliver
Dates: 21-22 January 2011
Times: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Venue: Allen Street, London W8
Fee: GBP125.00 (plus GBP25.00 materials payable on the day)

Dyeing your own leather can be an extremely creative process and it can enable the binder to produce beautiful and unique covers for their design bindings.

This workshop will be a mixture of some short demonstrations and hands on experimenting. We will be using a selection of different dyes and exploring each of their uses and limitations.

The aim will be to develop a different approach to how you illustrate your design pieces. Natural leathers and “mini blank canvases” will be prepared and provided. We will concentrate mainly on the dyes and their different applications but we will also take our work further by applying cold blind tooling, reverse transfer printing and back-pared leather onlays.

Materials (leather, dyes etc.) will be provided.

Nicky Oliver discovered bookbinding whilst studying for her Graphic Design and Illustration degree in Bath in 1996. After working over ten years in commercial binderies in London, she has established her own business Black Fox Bindery, specialising in commissioned and design bindings, box- and label-making. She became a Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders in 2010 and has won several awards in the last three Designer Bookbinders National Competitions culminating with winning ‘the Silver triple’ with first prize for set book, open choice book and the Edgar Mansfield Medal for best book.