All summer school lectures to take place at:
Book and Paper Conservation Department, Archives of the Republic of Slovenia Zvezdarska 1, Ljubljana, (Ground floor).
All public lectures to take place at:
NUK, Turjaška 1, Ljubljana
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| Week 1: EUROPEAN BOOKBINDING 14500 - 1830 (Nicholas Pickwoad) | |
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| Monday, 22 September 2014 | |
| 08.30 - 10.00 | Session 1: Introduction; How to date bindings; Finishing tools;Aggregate dating; The medieval legacy. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Session 2: Illustrations of binderies; Books in sheets; Endleaves. |
| 12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch Break |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Examination of books |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 - 17.00 | Examination of books |
| Tuesday, 23 September 2014 | |
| 08.30 - 10.00 | Session 3: Stitched books; Sewing techniques; Greek-style bindings. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Session 4: Recessed supports; Deceptive practices; Hollow backs; Spine shape; Edge treatment; Spine linings. |
| 12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch Break |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Examination of books |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 - 17.00 | Examination of books |
| Wednesday, 24 September 2014 | |
| 08.30 - 10.00 | Session 5: Temporary/cheap bindings; Sewn textblocks; Sewn supported in drawn-on covers; Textblocks with extra-thick endleaves; Linkstitch bindings; Sewing through pierced supports; Longstitch; sewn through wrapper with external supports; Lace-attached bindings; Tacketed bindings. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Session 6: Laced-case bindings in parchment and paper; Laced-case bindings with cover linings; Laced-case bindings with boards; Decorated laced-case parchment bindings; Case bindings. |
| 12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch break |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Public Lecture by Nicholas Pickwoad "Unfinished business", NUK, Turjaška 1 |
| 15.00 - 17.30 | Examination of books |
| Thursday, 25 September 2014 | |
| 08.30 - 10.00 | Session 7: Boards - wood, sca'board, laminated boards, paper boardsr; board-attachment; endleaf/board attachment. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Session 8: Endbands, worked and stuck-on. |
| 12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch Break |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Examination of books |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 - 17.00 | Examination of books |
| Friday, 26 September 2014 | |
| 08.30 - 10.00 | Session 9: Uncovered bindings in boards; Covering materials; Covering techniques; Half and quarter bindings. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Break |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Session 10: Account-books; Economy measures; School books; Portable books; Titling and shelving . |
| 12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch Break |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Examination of books |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 - 17.00 | Examination of books |
| Week 2: BYZANTINE BOOKBINDING and BOOKBINDING DOCUMENTATION (Georgios Boudalis and Athanasios Velios) | |
| Monday, 29 September 2014 | |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | A common start: Bookbindings around the Mediterranean in the first ten centuries of the Christian Era. |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Introduction to Byzantine bookbindings. |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Break |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Free-text records, structured records, recommendations, schemas |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Schema development (outline) |
| Tuesday, 30 September 2014 | |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Endleaves and Sewing of the gatherings |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Boards and board attachment |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Break |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | SQL, Drupal |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | XML, RelaxNG, validation |
| Wednesday, 1 October 2014 | |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Spine lining, edge trimming and edge decoration |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Endbands |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Break |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Public lecture by Athanasios Velios "RDF and Linked Open Data", NUK, Turjaška 1 |
| 14.30 – 14.40 | Break |
| 14.40 – 16.00 | SKOS and Getty vocabularies |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | SKOS microthesaurus development on Drupal |
| Thursday, 2 October 2014 | |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Fastenings and Markers |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Covering and Decoration |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Break |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Schema development (XML) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | CIDOC-CRM, CRM mapping workshop |
| Friday, 3 October 2014 | |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Visit to the library, examination of original bindings |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Digital photography |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Break |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Bookbinding recording and inputting in the database (books from the library) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Bookbinding recording and inputting in the database (books from the library) |
| Week 3: BYZANTINE BOOKBINDING: A practical workshop (Georgios Boudalis) | |
| Monday, 6 October 2014 | Day 1. Shaping and preparing the boards and sewing the gatherings with the bidirectional technique, that is, sewing half of the gatherings with one board and the other half with the other boards and finally connecting the two halves together. |
| 9.00 – 12.00 | Workshop |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Break |
| 13.00 – 17.00 | Workshop |
| Tuesday, 7 October 2014 | Day 2. Shaping the spine, attaching the spine lining, starting to sew the endbands |
| 9.00 – 12.00 | Workshop |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Break |
| 13.00 – 17.00 | Workshop |
| Wednesday, 8 October 2014 | Day 3. Endband sewing. The idea is to make one simple endband and one compound, complete with the characteristic multicoloured twined (or woven) front surface. |
| 9.00 – 12.00 | Workshop |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Break |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Public lecture by George Boudalis “Byzantine Bookbindings: variation, evolution and decline” NUK, Turjaška 1 |
| 13.00 – 17.00 | Workshop |
| Thursday, 9 October 2014 | Day 4. Attaching the leather cover and start making the fastenings |
| 9.00 – 12.00 | Workshop |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Break |
| 13.00 – 17.00 | Workshop |
| Friday, 10 October 2014 | Day 5. Finish fastenings. |
| 9.00 – 12.00 | Workshop |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Break |
| 13.00 – 17.00 | Workshop |