Bookbinding – Gold tooling on paper-covered book
Masterclass with Tracey Rowledge
Course period
6 – 10 August 2018 – FULL – Waitinglist
Learn how to gold tool on a paper-covered book, to show how the medium is brought to life when it is applied to a three-dimensional object.
Using simple shaped hand finishing tools you will be taught two gold tooling techniques, giving you the opportunity to explore the creative possibilities of gold-tooled images on paper. You will be using gold leaf and B S Glaire for this course, which is designed to focus on ideas and technique in parallel.
You will need to bring a paper-covered book with you. It could be a full paper-covered book, with or without the use of adhesive, or it could with a quarter cloth or leather binding with paper sides. If, however, you have no experience of binding books in paper, Loose and Simple bindings 2 being taught by Cristina Balbiano d-Aramengo on the 30 July – 3 August 2018 at Leksands folkhögskola will give you the opportunity to learn and explore the possibilties of making book structures out of paper, which you could then gold tool during this course.
Foundation skills in gold tooling will be taught, making this course suitable for all levels. You will learn through demonstration, one-to-one tuition and group discussion.
You will also be able to buy extra material to use beyond the course.
We all welcome you to a creative and intense week!
Tracey Rowledge studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths’ College, London, and Fine Bookbinding and Conservation at Guildford College of Further and Higher Education, Surrey, UK. Her practice combines elements of both fine and applied art. Her work includes a series of drawings made with Sarah Warsop, What Isn’t Here Hasn’t Happened, commissioned by Siobhan Davies Dance; and for Jerwood Encounters she made a site specific, solid graphite wall drawing (Jerwood Space, London). She has exhibited internationally and her work is held in various private and public collections. Tracey has received various awards, including support from the Crafts Council to go on the 2008 Cape Farewell Expedition to Disko Bay, Greenland, which culminated in three series of site specific Arctic Drawings. In July 2016 she began a one year residency with silversmith David Clarke at Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery, UK, which will culminate with an exhibition entitled Shelved at Tunbridge Wells museum, library and adult education centre in January 2018.
Tracey teaches gold tooling and aspects of bookbinding; she is a partner in Benchmark Bindery, established in 2009 with Kathy Abbott, where book conservation underpins their bookbinding work. She is a founding member of Tomorrow’s Past, an international bookbinding collective, whose aim is to encourage an alternative and modern approach to rebinding antiquarian books. She is also a founding member of the independent artists group 60|40, which was formed in 2008 (-2013) with the ceramicist Clare Twomey and the silversmith David Clarke, to expand the environment and opportunities for the applied arts. More information about Tracey at: http://www.traceyrowledge.com
Course fee:
5 125 SEK incl. materials and lunch.
7 400 SEK in a single room incl. materials, breakfast, lunch and evening meal.
6 900 SEK in part of a double room incl. materials, breakfast, lunch and evening meal.
Check-in from 4 pm the day before workshop start.
Last date for registration: 1 May 2018, but you are welcome to register also after this date if we still have places left. You will find the link to the registration form above next to the workshop period.
If you have any questions, please contact Maria Fahlgren by email maria.fahlgren@leksandsfolkhogskola.se or phone no. +46 247 36966, or Fia Palmgren by email fia.palmgren@leksandsfolkhogskola or phone no. +46 247 64825.
The accommodation and the school buildings are gathered like a small village with a main building, reception, theory classrooms and a dining hall. The rooms are very well equipped and the traditional style of the buildings gives the school a pleasant atmosphere. In the dining hall all meals are served, prepared from the best of ingredients locally produced if possible by our executive Chef and his team.
In a nearby building you will find studios for the courses.
All rooms have private bathrooms with toilet and shower. It is 6-8 rooms in a corridor with shared kitchen and a common room with TV. To see images of our rooms, please click on the following link: http://www.leksand.fhsk.se/bilder-boende
The region around lake Siljan has a unique craftsmanship tradition. With this strong tradition as base, Leksand Folk High School is considered as one of the best craftsmanship pre-trainings in the country. Leksand is famous for its strong tradition in folklore, folk music and its beautiful nature and with its surrounding communes around lake Siljan, is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Sweden.
Leksand is located within a three-hour trip by train through a beautiful landscape of open fields, lakes and forests from Stockholm and Arlanda Airport. You will find 6 to 8 daily connections directly from Stockholm and Arlanda Airport to Leksand station.
Welcome to Leksand this summer!
