Hooray! A recommended album-making class in Seattle!

ALBUMS taught by Designer Bookbinder Paul Delrue
October 22 & 23, 2005 9am-5pm University of Washington Art Building $135 for BAG members; $160 for non-members (fee includes supplies to be provided for making album)

Master bookbinder Paul Delrue shares his unique approach to making and decorating beautiful albums for photographs or other material.

This is essentially two workshops in one. On the first day, Paul will guide students through the construction of a very elegant, and deceptively simple album. The Delrue album is inspired by the classic Victorian model, but has been refined and simplified by Paul over the years to suit the modern book artist. It has card pages, with stubs to allow for the inclusion of photographs, and requires no sewing, trimming or pressing. It is gently rounded, but not backed, and has an attractive canvas cover which cases in with great ease. It can therefore be made at home with no equipment.

On the second day, leaving Victoria behind, Paul will show students how to make their albums their own. By applying a collage of printed matter, decorated papers and fragments of photographs, a complex and pleasing design will be built up, drawing on Paul's many years of artistic album making, and the creativity of the whole group. We will finish by embellishing the binding with simple decorative tooling in black and real gold, where Paul will show how liberating it is to throw away the straight lines and make fluid, expressive marks with traditional finishing tools.

This workshop, part technical binding from the master, part creative exploration with the artist, will inspire you to create your own truly intimate albums. This class is open to all. Participants will be asked to bring a collection of papers and images to help decorate their album covers.

Paul C. Delrue bound his first book in 1959, and then apprenticed at University College, London, where he spent ten years. He has been in private practice since 1971, enthusiastically working on many styles of binding, but always coming back to his love of design. So far he has completed about 300 special bindings. He has won many bookbinding prizes, and in 1990 he was the only person ever to win the three major prizes in the National Bookbinding Competition. He has also won the bronze medals at the Prix Paul Bonet, but his most cherished award was at the age of 18, for best apprentice. He is a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, and an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Bookbinders. Paul will also lecture for BAG on Thursday October 20.

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To register for this class, please complete the form below and mail with $50 deposit (payable to Book Arts Guild) to: Kate Leonard 7709 10th Avenue NW Seattle, WA 98117

Please contact Kate with any questions: 206 543 2273 weekdays or katel@u.washington.edu. Registrations will be confirmed with a list of supplies to bring and location information for the class. (Class will be filled on a first come, first served basis. PLEASE REGISTER BY OCTOBER 14. The deposit reserves your place in the workshop; balance of registration is due in class. If you are unable to attend class, deposit may be non-refundable if your place is not filled.)

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DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: To request disability accommodations for this event, contact the Office of ADA Coordinator at least 10 days in advance of any event by calling 543-6450 (voice); 543-6452 (TDD); 685-3885 (FAX); access@u.washington.edu (e-mail).