Upcoming Events:

Upcoming Events:

June 17^th

Join us at 5:30 for our annual summer happy hour in the garden at Café Berlin, 322 Mass Ave NE, near the Union Station stop on the red line.  Come sit outside and enjoy an early summer evening with other members of the Potomac Chapter.  If the weather is bad, the location will change to Capital City Brew Pub, 2 Mass Ave NE, across the street from Union Station.  The date and time will not change.

July 17^th

Saturday, July 17^th will be our first Studio Day at the Folger Lab.  The theme is “finish what you started.” Bring in that project you’ve been meaning to wrap up but haven’t had the time or space to complete.  Think of all the workshops you’ve taken where you weren’t able to put the finishing touches on the end product.  Now is your chance!

August 14^th

Our annual Summer Party, hosted by Linda Rollins.  Food, drinks, and a chance to get together as the summer winds down.  More details to follow.

August 26^th

Evening Tips and Tricks Session.  Come to the Folger to see a demonstration of printing on Japanese paper for use in conservation.  This technique is particularly useful for taking an image of a damaged spine, transferring it to Japanese paper, then using the paper to repair or replace the deteriorated leather.

October 29^th and 30^th

Lecture and one day workshop presented by Jacques Brejoux and Nadine Dumain.  The lecture is entitled Medieval stampers: construction and use in pulp preparation for hand papermaking. After more than 30 years exploring the craft of papermaking, Jacques Brejoux came to the conclusion that further improvement of his papers depended on building a full scale set of medieval stampers for preparation of his pulps.  Years of work and 30,000 Euros later, Mr. Brejoux has realized his goal and the accomplishment is one of the most significant events in contemporary hand papermaking.  In this lecture he will describe the entire project and the unusual papers that have resulted—a majority of which are designed for use in book and paper conservation.

One day workshop Paper cased book structures employing multi-ply papers taught by  Nadine Dumain.  Nadine Dumain’s workshop will explore the special working properties of new multi-ply paper case papers produced at the Moulin du Verger papermill in France.  Many of the features of the book structures described result from several collaborative workshop sessions and ongoing dialogue with British book conservator Chris Clarkson and master papermaker Jacques Brejoux.  All participants will complete at least one book by the end of the day.