The History of Bookbinding
Dates
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Venue
Time & Date
Information
Addressed to
6th graders, middle and high school students
Dates
November 2019 - May 2020
Duration
3 hours
Cost
Free admission
Application and selection process:
Applications should be send to education@onassis.org by 15 October, 2019. Responses will be given by 1 November, 2019.
Introduction
Do you think books hide secrets only within their covers? Enter the Onassis Library and learn about books both inside and out. Discover the art of bookbinding and learn how simple pages are transformed into books.
Have you heard the phrase “Don’t judge a book by its cover?” At the Onassis Library, we’ll turn our gaze not only on the cover, but on the “spine,” into which the pages are bound, as we uncover the fascinating history of bookbinding.
Covers, ornaments, clasps, stitches, glues, and presses: These words may now seem unfamiliar—but get ready to use the tools they refer to in an art that you’ll make your own. You’ll be the one to join the pages and decide whether they need to be sewn, to go to the press for gluing, or even trimmed or hammered.
With the collaboration of the Phoinika publishing house, learn to bind books and create a unique notebook to give or keep as a memento.
Photo © Yiannis Soulis
Credits
Each school group that is selected will take part in one 3-hour workshop.
