The BBinding project – innovative training tools and materials for bookbinders – Dr. Rosen Petkov, Chairman of Student Computer Art Society (Bulgaria)
In parallel to the declining large scale bookbinding workshops some new positive tendencies occurred. Last few decades there is an increasing demand for artistic bindings, increasing awareness of the old libraries and archives about their collections and the expansion of the Internet trade with old books. These tendencies are encouraging the appearance of new generation of bookbinders. In relation to the bookbinding, the conservation and restoration area grows. But most of the existing training materials are covering part of the problems and are rather old fashioned. There is a lack of training tools, and especially tools focusing on skills like entrepreneurship, intercultural learning and green skills in relation to the work of the “modern” bookbinders.
Thus, the general aim of the BBinding project (www.bbinding.org), supported by the Leonardo da Vinci programme of EU, is to provide modern training materials and tools for vocational training for bookbinding and paper preservation.
The users that will benefit the developed training materials are:
- bookbinders (self-employed) and workers in small bookbinding workshops/ateliers;
- unemployed workers from former large bookbinding workshops or printing factories;
- unemployed individuals willing to develop their entrepreneurship and professional skills in the area;
- young artists who are willing to develop artistic bookbindings;
- vocational trainers in the binding ateliers or team leaders in the restoration sections in libraries/archives.
Main products and results include:
- a set of 9 online training modules – in a LMS suitable for e-learning;
- 3D CAD bookbinding design tool to facilitate the work of the bookbinders when designing the bindings;
- a module-based practical manual printed in Bulgarian and English and available as pdf also in Italian, German and Dutch;
The training and conservation projects about photographic materials: the experience of Alinari - Emanuela Sesti, Director of the Restoration and Conservation Department, Fratelli Alinari. Fondazione per la Storia della Fotografia (Italy)
Presenting the collections of Alinari and the last intervention project on conservation and restoration of photographic materials, in particular those at a greater risk of degradation, nitrate and acetate films. The project has already started after a year of study in Alinari archive and the results will be presented during this conference.
Ancient photographs and photo albums - Laura Masia, Freelance restorer (Italy)
The main tecniques of printing.
The deterioration of photographic materials and albums.
The restoration of photographs.
The restoration of albums.
The problem of bookbinding.
The conservation.
Download: Ancient photographs and photo albums - Laura Masia, Freelance restorer (Italy)
From restoration to interactive presentation: how old photo’s get a new life… - Peer Boselie, Director of Euregionaal Historisch Centrum Sittard-Geleen (The Netherlands)
In the presentation I will show some aspects of working with volunteers in the Euregional Historic Centre of Sittard-Geleen, and focus on the digitization and restoration of old photographic objects. After restoration, they are presented on the website ánd added in the content of the ‘aezelprojek’ , wherein we present all kind of documents in a georeferenced and vectorized way. In this way old objects get a new life, sometimes even in 3D…
Minimal intervention in book conservation - Dr. Patricia Engel, Researcher at University of Graz (Austria)
Minimal intervention is a term coming from humane medicine and means “doing as much as needed and at the same time as little as possible”. This new philosophy in medical care can be very well applied in book conservation too. It is beneficial for the historical books. How this minimal intervention can be done in practice, what philosophy thesections are based on and why we should use minimal intervention will be shown in the presentation.