Green’s Books is one.
On 20th July we celebrated our first year in business with a small gathering of friends, family, colleagues, and customers. A lovely evening was had by all and we thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to say a big thank you to everyone for their support so far.
Arthur wins Institute of Conservation award!
Sponsored by publisher Taylor & Francis, the 2016 ICON Journal Award was recently awarded to Arthur for his latest paper ‘A Compensation Endband: A Structural Endband for a Book with Uneven Edges’, which describes the endband developed specifically for use on a late-medieval parchment manuscript at the Bodleian Library (MS. Laud Misc. 99).
The award was announced on the ICON website from where the article may also be accessed.
https://icon.org.uk/news/the-icon-journal-award-2016-winner-announced
Workshops at Green’s Books
We are pleased that the studio has been busy with some interesting conservation projects throughout our first year; however, we’ve also been run a variety of workshops. The highlights including a five-day course on springback bindings and a one-day workshop for professional and student conservators on repairing parchment.
In addition to workshops, Arthur has also enjoyed open studio sessions and one-to-one teaching. Particularly interesting was the opportunity to work with Dr Victoria Purewal, a freelance natural science conservator, about the practicalities of conserving bound herbaria. Following her visit, Victoria wrote a review of her time at the studio for ICON News.
https://icon.org.uk/news/tru-vue-blog-problem-solving-across-disciplines?platform=hootsuite
Looking to the year ahead
We have lots of new workshops and events in the calendar (https://www.greensbooks.co.uk/bookbinding-workshops-and-courses/), including the springback binding and parchment repair courses which are both back by popular demand. We’re also looking forward to our new three-day course on lapped paper case-bindings where students will design and make their very own paste-paper for the binding!
Emily and Arthur Green, 17th August 2017.