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Historic Preservation and Conservation
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At the institution
For complete beginners as well as those with some experience. The course includes cleaning, stain removal, deacidifying and repairing of paper, sewing, cover repair (paper, cloth and leather) and board reattachment. You are encouraged to bring items to conserve....
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? This is a structured course which allows you to explore a broad range of art and design activity covering two and three dimensional areas as an evening programme over one year. If offers a diagnostic experience for those who wish...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? The course is a taster session on hand bookbinding for anyone who would like to know more about this craft and/or who might be thinking of enrolling for one of the longer courses at the City Lit. What topics will we cover? We will...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? You will be introduced to the book through a series of projects designed to provide a good working knowledge of materials and techniques. You will develop skills in both the production and design of hand made books enabling you to...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? The making of a quarter-leather bound book through a series of progressive steps designed to provide a good working knowledge of materials and techniques. You will develop skills in both the production and design of a hand made book...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? You will be introduced to the book through a series of projects designed to provide a good working knowledge of materials and techniques. You will develop skills in both the production and design of hand made books enabling you to...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? This is an opportunity for students already enrolled on City Lit bookbinding courses to use the studio to continue with their course work. What topics will we cover? Work undertaken in the session will be the students’ own, with...
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Visual Art
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At the institution
What is the course about? How to prepare ('forward') a text-block up to the point where it is ready to be covered and then how to prepare leather and cover the forwarded book with a full leather binding. The course will then cover the subsequent finishing processes...
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Visual Art
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At the institution
What is the course about? How to gold tool on leather and paper. What topics will we cover? Demonstration of the basic processes of tooling in gold leaf on leather and paper; introduction to the terminology, special equipment and different types of finishing...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? Whether you are an artist or a maker or simply interested in the book form this course is designed to develop your ideas through the structure of the book culminating in a unique hand made book or small edition exploring sequence,...
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Visual Art
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A chance for intermediate and advanced students to work on their own projects, be it fine binding, book conservation, box -aking or alternative book structures. Basic materials included. What is the course about? A course designed to allow students to work...
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Visual Art
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This course leads to a City and Guilds 7823 certificate in bookbinding. You will learn a wide range of essential techniques and develop your skills in using materials and designing your own work. Suitable for beginners and students with some experience. You...
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Visual Art
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At the institution
The aim of this course is to introduce basic pottery techniques. You will learn to make pinch and coiled forms, slab built forms and simple thrown forms. You will be shown simple surface decoration techniques and apply them to the forms you make. Work will be...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? This is a short course for beginners in Pottery. The course will give students an introduction to basic hand-building techniques in clay: pinching, coiling, slab-building and press moulding. Some decorating and glazing techniques will...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? Showing by discussion, demonstration and making how personal ideas become finished work. What topics will we cover? The course will show an insight into the ideas and practical decision making made by the maker in the process of...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? Showing by discussion, demonstration and making how personal ideas become finished work. What topics will we cover? The course will show an insight into the ideas and practical decision making made by the maker in the process of...
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Visual Art
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This part-time two-year course is validated by London Metropolitan University and leads to the Dip HE Fine and Applied Art, Ceramics. Designed for mature students with some previous ceramic experience, or experience of other art-based study, the course encourages...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? For ceramics diploma students only What feedback will I get? You will receive regular feedback from your tutor throughout the course, as and when appropriate. At the end of the course you and your tutor are asked to assess the progress...
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Visual Art
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What is the course about? Over the three days you will be shown how to make simple forms and start to understand how the process works. It will be explained how to manipulate the clay on the spinning wheel to create bowls and vases. For those with some experience...
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Visual Art
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Working with silkscreen, paper stencil, block and potato printing on unfired clay, biscuit and glazed surfaces, you will create pattern, narrative images with slips, oxides, glaze and on-glaze enamels on simple mould forms and tiles. Charge for clay of £1 per...
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