GBW Catalogue of Video Materials

The Guild of Book Workers Library is housed in the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa's Main Library and holds over 700 volumes on the arts of the book, particularly hand bookbinding techniques but including volumes on the history of bookbinding and bookbinders, papermaking, paper decoration techniques, calligraphy, printing, and book conservation. An author-title list of print publications is on another page.

Videotapes and DVDs which document the annual Guild Standards Seminars are another important component of the collection. These tapes and DVDs, and others purchased by the Guild are listed below by year of seminar.

The agreement between the Guild and the University Libraries stipulates that Guild members may borrow items from the collection by mail. Other researchers are allowed to use the materials in the Special Collections Department Reading Room. To request loans, see the Library page on the Guild website or contatct the Guild Librarian::

Jane Meggers, Conservator
State Historical Society of Iowa
402 Iowa Avenue
Iowa City IA 52240
jane-meggers@uiowa.edu
319-335-3921 (call 9-4:30 M-F or leave voice mail anytime)

1983, BOSTON: No tapes produced

1984, PITSBURGH:

Gold Tooling Using Gold Leaf. Michael Wilcox & Don Glaister

Edge Gilding and Gauffering. Hugo Peller

Covering Techniques Using Vellum Over Stiff Boards. Heinke Pensky-Adam

1985, SAN FRANCISCO:

Half Vellum Over Stiff Boards. Silvia Rennie

Paper Cover, Case Construction, Conservation Rebinding. Gary Frost

Gold Tooling: Gerard Charriere and Michael Wilcox

Tool Sharpening. David Brock

Rebacking Cloth Bindings. Jerilyn Davis

Expanded Piano Hinge Album. Hedi Kyle

Covering Fine Bindings in Full Leather. William Anthony

Doublures, Endpapers and Leather Hinges. William Anthony

Turkish Marbling. Paula Gourley

1987, AUSTIN:

Endbands. Jenny Hille

Rebacking Leather Bound Books. Bruce Levy

Tools and Techniques of Paper Repair. Barbara Meierhusby

Collaboration Between Binder and Printer. Craig Jensen & Richard-Gabriel Rummonds

1988, CHICAGO:

Gougless Onlays. Sylvia Rennie

Japanese Side-sewn Bindings. Catherine Atwood

Letterspacing. Kay Amert

1989, PORTLAND:

Paper Repair for Bookbinders. Betsy Palmer Eldridge

1990, WASHINGTON, DC:

Edge to Edge Doublures. Monique Lallier

French Onlays. Tini Miura

Techniques and Logic in German Bookbinding. Frank Mowery

1991, BLOOMINGTON, IN:

Case Binding. David Bourbeau

Design Bindings. Don Glaister

Special Enclosures. Hedi Kyle

1992, SAN FRANCISCO:

Box Making. Daniel Kelm

Rebacking a Leather Tight-Back. Bernard Middleton

The Making of a Book - Bone Songs. Clair Van Vliet

Box and Sculptural Bindings. Jan Sobota

1993, BOSTON:

Sewing Variations. Betsy Eldridge

Simplified Binding Structure. Sun Evrard

Pastepaper - Traditional & Contemporary

Using the Hot Stamping Press. William Minter

Techniques of Vellum Repair. Frank Mowery

Board Edges Redefined. Eleanor Ramsey

Modified Limp Vellum Bindings. Robert Espinoza

From the Leather Book to the Extra Terestrial Book. Timothy Ely

1995, TUSCALOOSA:

Rx for Sick Books from NYAM. Elaine Schlefer

Edge Gilding. John Mitchell

Danish Millimeter Binding. John Hyltoft

Contemporary Edition Binding. Mindell Dubansky and Priscilla Spitler

1996, PASADENA:

Cuir Cisele or Leather Schnitt. Jan Sabota

Opening up Photo Album Possiblities. Richard Horton

Exposed Spine Binding. Louise Genest

Dying and Staining Leather. Terry Buckley

1997, ANN ARBOR:

Long and Link Stitch Sewing. Pamela Spitzmueller

How to Treat Wooden Boards. Dag-Ernst Petersen

Gold Tooling. Don Glaister

Japanese Papers: Identifying and Using. Nancy Jacobi and Don Etherington

1998, GREENSBORO:

On the Ellesmere Manuscript. Anthony Cains

Paper Engineering and Pop-Ups. Carol Barton

Decorated Papers. Linda Hohneke

English & German Style Leather Paring. Linda Blaser and Franklin Mowery

1999, CHICAGO:

Action on the Case. Maureen Duke

Rounded Leather Drop-spine Boxes. Scott Kellar

Wire-Edge Binding. Daniel Kelm

Know Your Endpapers. Terry Boone, Jesse Munn, and Mary Wootton

2000, SALT LAKE CITY:

Medieval Bookbinding. Terry Buckley

Examination of the Jacques Board Shear. William Minter

Adhesives. Karen Zukor

Girdle Bindings. Pamela Spitzmueller

Miniature Binding. Gabrielle Fox

2001, ALEXANDRIA:

Romanesque Bindings. Jiri Vnoucek

Traditional Foundations Of Non-Traditional Artwork. Suzanne Moore

Vellum Binding. Peter Verheyen

Paper Repair. Christine Smith

Leather Decoration. S.A. Neff, Jr.

2002, MINNEAPOLIS:

Slipcase and Chemise. Monique Lallier

Illumination. Dennis Ruud

Papermaking: Before and After: Pulp, Paper and Beyond. Bridget O'Malley

Historical and Contemporary Album Structure. Olivia Priminas

2003, DENVER:

Spring Back Ledger Binding. Richard Baker

Incorporating 3-Dimensional Objects Into Cover Design. Tini Miura

Covering in Leather. Mark Esser

Presentation Considerations in the Design and Creation of Artists' Books. Julie Chen

2004, PROVIDENCE:

Half-leather Trade Binding. Mark Andersson

Edge Decoration Techniques. Peter Geraty

Japanese Pouch/Four Hole Binding. Kiyoshi Imai.

Medieval Limp Vellum/Leather Structure Conservation of Historic Bindings Using Adhesive and Non-adhesive Methods. Nancy Southworth.

Photographing Your Artwork. P. J. Saine

2005, PORTLAND:

Wunderkabinette: Architectural Book Environments. Hedi Kyle

Edelpappband. Renate Mesmer

Lacunose (An Artistic Invention). Paul Delrue

Drum Leaf Binding. Timothy Ely

Traditional Marbling on Paper, Cloth and Leather. Peggy Skycraft

Letterpress Printing (Foundations Session). Inge Bruggeman

2006, Centennial Conference NEW YORK:

Boxed set of 8 DVDs

2007, DALLAS

Gold Leaf Tooling on Leather, Stuart Brockman. Methods and skills for gold leaf tooling of labels on goatskin, use of line fillets and patterned rolls on boards and board edges, lettering a convex spine and use of pallets and center tools. Brockman trained with his father James in the UK; has led workshops and lectured in the UK, Canada, Finland, and the USA.

Plain-Jane Restoration - Making Books Functional, Catherine Burkhard. Basic, cost-effective, yet quality restoration techniques for books with personal value. Burkhard is a bookbinder and calligrapher and has been an instructor in both fields. Owns Books'n Let­ters Studio in Dallas.

Original Binding Structures and Decorations, Roberta Lavadour. Focus on original binding structures and book decoration inspired by the cowboy and Native American heritage of Eastern Oregon. Lavadour publishes her artist's .books at the Mission Creek Press.

Practical Strategies for Editions, Kitty Maryatt. Designing a student letterpress edition of 100 copies demonstrates a variety of traditional and non-traditional materials and use of jigs for repetitive tasks. Maryatt directs the Scripps College Press and owns Two Hands Press in Playa Vista, CA.

Creating Medieval Stationer's Binding Structures: Lacing Patterns, Tacketing Methods, and Leather Making, Chela Metzger. Stationers’ bindings with visible lacing and ticketing; closures with loops, ties or buttons; history and conservation of blank books. Metzger teach­es book history and conservation at the University of Texas at Austin.

Design Principles and the Book, Keith Owens. Foundational design and color prin­ciples and their use in innovative book design. Visuals illustrate the application of these principles in book design. Owens is assistant professor of communication design at the University of North Texas School of Visual Arts and teaches at Texas Tech. He designs custom books, albums and boxes; Education chair of AIGA Dallas-Ft. Worth chapter.

Behind the Design, Priscilla Spitler. Designer binding process of overall cover design, from concept to thumbnail sketch to laying out a final blueprint for leather onlay. Spitler studied printmaking at CA College of Arts and Crafts, bookbinding at London College of Printing and design binding at University of Texas. An edition binder, owns Hands On Bookbinding, Truth or Consequences, NM.

NON-SEMINAR TAPES & DVDs ACQUIRED FOR THE GUILD LIBRARY:

Johanna Drucker,  Extensions of the Codex: Virtual, Electronics, and Esthetic Dimensions. HISTORY OF THE BOOK,  April 25, 2003. Syracuse. VCR.

The Anatomy of a Book, Part I: Format in the Hand-Press Period, Terry Belanger, 1991.  The Making of a Renaissance Book, Plantin-Moretus Museum Antwerp, 1969. Book Arts Press. DVD.

MARCHETTI - NY Edge Gilding, Shop Tour and Demonstration; Tools and Techniques of Japanese Paper Conservation

Susan Joy Share Performances. 2006. DVD.

Bookbinding at the Harcourt Bindery. 2006, Samuel B Ellenport. DVD.

Nineteenth-Century Bookbinding Techniques at the Harcourt Bindery. 2007, Samuel B Ellenport. DVD.

BINDER VISION PROGRAMS.
Program 1 - Elizabeth Greenhill: Bookbinder Talks to Marianne Tidcombe. With Comments on Her Work in His Collection from the Lord Wardington
Program 2 - Rebacking an Antiquarian Book with Bernard Middleton: A binders' Exhibition with Jan Ascoli: A Visit to Cockerell Marbled Papers
Program 3 - Angela James: Sewing on Tape and Cords; Maurice Parkinson: The "Master Pulp" Leaf Casting
Program 4 - Edgar Mansfield and James Brockman Talk to Rodney Crouch; Making Books with Concave Spines

HOME STUDY PROGRAMS FROM THE CANADIAN BOOKBINDERS AND BOOK ARTISTS GUILD. Supporting workbooks and materials with each program.
Program 1 - Setting up shop, tools and materials, framing, sewing, making the case, hanging in the text block. 3 DVD’s (or 6 VHS tapes on request).
Program 2 - Making paper cloth, rounding and backing, trimming and edge treatments, headbands, spine lining, German case, and special endpapers section. 6 VHS tapes. 3 DVDs (or 6 VHS tapes on request). .
Program 3 - Joint construction, sewing variations, more rounding and backing, hanging on boards, leather spine and corners, finishing, and special leather section. 3 DVD’s (or 6 VHS tapes on request). .
Program 4 - Restoration and Repair. 5 DVDs (or 5 VHS tapes on request).
Program 5 - Finishing. 3 DVDs

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