About this course

This course is designed to teach skills to make an illustrated book: typesetting, linocut printmaking, Risograph and book-binding.

Over eight sessions you will design your own book and both learn and apply these skills, ending up with your own illustrated, printed and bound book.

On the course you will learn:

• how to design a book
• illustration approaches and planning
• linocut print preparation
• printing on a Risograph machine
• case binding and Japanese stab binding

As well as learning these skills in the workshop space inside the library, you will be supported in learning from the collections in the Bodleian Library, including the collection of artist’s books. At a planning session in the Weston Library, you will discuss and explore your approach to making a book, while viewing historic and contemporary examples from the collections.

At the end of the course you will have made one hand-bound copy and a couple of soft-bound copies. We will provide all materials, but you do need to come with an idea for your book.

Schedule

Tutors

Robin Wilson and Rosie Fairfax-Cholmeley (Wytham Studio)

Event information

• The course fee is £550 (standard) or £500 for concessions (Oxford University students and staff, Oxford Brookes students and staff, and Friends of the Bodleian).
• This course takes place in person in the printing workshop in the Schola Musicae at the Bodleian Old Library. Please report to the Bodleian Library Great Gate, accessed from Catte Street, upon arrival. How to get here.
• The printing workshop has step-free access. About accessibility at our site.