Off to another summer school

In today's one-day course at City Lit we'll be making a book out of contemporary materials such as electric cabling, car tire or other found materials, using a range of medieval sewing techniques in a sculptural approach to bookbinding.

Tomorrow I'm off to West Dean for a whole week of book making - getting some skills and ideas. The course description says: "By using a range of interesting book structures combined with imaginative mark-making technquies, this course is designed to enable you to develop your ideas through the structure of the book, culminating in a unique hand made book or small edition." It includes experimenting with monoprint, rubber stamp, embossing and cut throughs and "will give you the opportunity to explore the relationship of the book structure to its contents".

Right up my street!

This book is by Carol Barton.