Week 1: EUROPEAN BOOKBINDING 1500 - 1800 (Nicholas Pickwoad)
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Monday 10/9/2007, Volos
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9.00 - 10.30
Introduction.
How to date bindings.
Finishing tools.
Aggregate dating.
The medieval legacy.
Break -
11.00 - 12.30
Illustrations of binderies.
Books in sheets.
Endleaves.
Lunch Break -
16.30-18.00
Examination of books from the Pantazopoulos collection in DIKI-Volos.
Break -
18.30-20.00
Examination of books from the Pantazopoulos collection in DIKI-Volos
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Tuesday 11/9/2007, Volos
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9.00 - 10.30
Stitched books.
Sewing techniques.
Greek-style bindings.
Break -
11.00 - 12.30
Recessed supports.
Deceptive practices.
Hollow backs.
Spine shape.
Edge treatment.
Spine linings.
Lunch Break -
16.30 – 18.00
Examination of books from the Milies library.
Break -
18.30 - 20.00
Examination of books from the Milies library.
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Wednesday 12/9/2007, Volos, Zagora
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9.00 - 10.30
Temporary/cheap bindings.
Sewn textblocks.
Sewn in wrappers.
Sewn with extra-thick endleaves.
Tacketed bindings.
Linkstitch bindings.
Longstitch bindings.
Break -
11.00 - 12.30
Bindings sewn through wrapper with external supports.
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.
Lunch Break -
16.00 – 17.30
Boards - wood, paper, sca'board.
Board attachment.
Pre-covering pastedowns.
Worked endbands.
Stuck-on endbands.
Uncovered bindings in boards.
Departure for Zagora
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Thursday 13/9/2007, Zagora
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9.00 - 10.30
Examination of books from the Zagora library.
Break -
11.00 - 12.30
Examination of books from the Zagora library.
Break -
13.00 – 14.00
Examination of books from the Zagora Library.
Lunch Break -
17.00 – 18.30
Covering materials.
Covering techniques.
Half and quarter bindings.
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Friday 14/9/2007, Zagora, Volos
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9.00 - 10.30
Examination of books from the Zagora Library.
Break -
11.00 - 12.30
Examination of books from the Zagora Library.
Lunch break and departure for Volos -
17.00 - 18.30
Textile-covered bindings.
Account-books.
Economy measures.
School books.
Portable books.
Titling and shelving.
Ties and clasps.
Break -
19.00 - 20.30
Recording information about bindings.
Implications of research into binding structure for conservation strategies.
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Week 2: BYZANTINE BOOKBINDING and BOOKBINDING DOCUMENTATION (Georgios Boudalis and Athanasios Velios)
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Monday 17/9/2007, Volos
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9.00 – 10.30 (Boudalis, Lecture 1), Volos.
Introduction.
The research done so far.
Books and bookbinding in Byzantium.
Some important research problems.
Terminology and its problems.
The main technical features of the bindings of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Break -
11.00 – 12.30 (Boudalis, Lecture 2), Volos.
Technical features of the Byzantine bookbindings:
Endleaves, The sewing of the gatherings.
Boards and Board attachment.
Spine lining.
Break -
13.00 – 14.00 (Boudalis, Lecture 3), Volos.
Technical features of the Byzantine bookbindings:
Edge trimming and decoration.
Endbands.
Lunch break -
16.30 – 18.00 (Velios, Lecture 1), Volos.
Introduction to data structuring:
Data-structuring (tagged data).
Data-structuring (tables).
Your first book description (on paper).
Semantic Web Data specification.
Importance of schemas (RelaxNG).
Your first data structure (schema).
Break -
18.30 - 20.00 (Velios, Lecture 2), Volos.
Software tools for XML:
XML databases and XML native databases.
Major commercial packages – advantages.
Major open-source databases – advantages.
Software tools for interface development:
Web interfaces.
Java and other programming languages.
Developers – technical expertise you will need:
Database developers.
Database administration.
Interface developers.
Advertising for the correct people.
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Tuesday 18/9/2007, Volos
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9.00 – 10.30 (Boudalis, Lecture 4), Volos.
Technical features of the Byzantine bookbindings:
Covering and decoration.
Fastenings.
Break -
11.00 – 12.30 (Boudalis, Lecture 5), Volos.
Technical features of the Byzantine bookbindings:
Bosses and other metallic elements.
Bookmarks.
Break -
13.00 – 14.00 (Boudalis, Lecture 6 ), Volos.
Technical features of the Post Byzantine bookbindings:
Endleaves.
Sewing of the gatherings.
Lunch break -
16.30 – 18.00 (Velios, Workshop 1), Volos.
Schema development:
Covering and decoration.
Break -
18.30 - 20.00 (Velios, Workshop 2), Volos.
Schema development:
Endleaves.
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Wednesday 19/9/2007, Meteora
- Day trip to Meteora. Examination of bookbindings from the collections of the monasteries.
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Thursday 20/9/2007, Volos - Zagora
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7.45
Departure for Zagora
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10.00 - 11.00 (Boudalis, Lecture 7), Zagora.
Technical features of the Post Byzantine bookbindings:
Boards and board attachment.
Spine lining.
Break -
11.15 - 12.45 (Boudalis, Lecture 8), Zagora.
Technical features of the Post Byzantine bookbindings:
Endbands.
Cover and Decoration.
Fastenings.
Bosses and other metallic elements.
Break -
13.00 - 14.00
Examination of bookbindings from the collections of the Zagora library.
Lunch break and return to Volos -
17.00 – 18.30 (Velios, Workshop 3), Volos.
Schema development:
Boards.
Board attachment.
Spine lining.
Break -
19.00 – 20.30 (Velios, Workshop 4), Volos.
Schema development:
Endbands.
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Friday 21/9/2007, Volos
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9.00 - 10.30 (Boudalis, Lecture 9), Volos.
The necessary elements for a systematic study of Byzantine and Post Byzantine bookbindings.
Case study: ‘The Evolution of a craft: Post-Byzantine bookbinding between the late 15th and the early 18th century with special focus on the collection of the Iviron monastery in Mount Athos and the St Catherine’s monastery in Sinai’, PhD Thesis. Break -
11.00- 12.30 (Velios, Workshop 5), Volos.
Schema development:
Fastenings.
Metal furniture.
Break -
13.00 - 14.30 (Velios, Workshop 6), Volos.
Schema development:
Sewing.
Lunch break -
17.00 – 18.30 (Velios, Workshop 7), Volos.
Bookbinding recording and inputting in the database (books from the Pantazopoulos collection – DIKI).
Break -
19.00 – 20.30 (Velios, Workshop 8), Volos.
Bookbinding recording and inputting in the database (books from the Pantazopoulos collection – DIKI).
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Detailed schedule in pdf.