10 & 17 May 2025 - Ann-Marie Miller Online Workshop: Parchment Wallet Binding

Note: course will be held across two Saturday afternoons. Please ensure you can attend both sessions.
Date: 10 and 17 May (two consecutive Saturdays) from 14:00-16:30

Teacher: Ann-Marie Miller
Location: online via zoom

Description: In this 2-part workshop you will make a facsimile of a small parchment stationery wallet binding, that was used as a Wine account book from the Middle Temple Archive. The books are small and designed to be portable, with lined parchment covers and a fore edge flap. They have an internal pocket and marbled endpapers. We will get to know the binding with a presentation about its structure and step-by-step slides showing you how to make it, which you will get to keep and revisit as much as you wish. We will then make the binding from scratch, using your materials kit. All materials will be cut to size and each stage will be demonstrated whilst you follow along. We will complete the binding over 2 x 2.5 hour sessions so that you have time to catch up if required.

Tool list will be sent to participants in due course.
Cost: £50 for members/£75 for non-members + £40 materials fee + £15 postage = £105 for members/£130 for non-members

Number of attendees: 10

Biography: Ann-Marie Miller is an accredited book and archives conservator based in London, and runs an independent workshop, Codex Conservation Ltd. Her passion for heritage began after studying the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. After studying Chemistry and Bookbinding she attained a post-graduate diploma and MA in conservation at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London. After graduating she worked freelance as a bookbinder and conservator in both the public and private sectors and then worked for 7 years at the British Library. Ann-Marie set up Codex Conservation in 2011 where she and her small team work for a broad range of institutional clients from private collectors to national museums. She is one of the directors of Impact Heritage CIC, a not-for-profit company working with community archives to help care for their collections, create funded training opportunities, and promote the conservation profession. She is an assessor and mentor for the PACR Icon accreditation scheme, and Conservation Specialist for the Association of Independent Museums Collection Care Audit Scheme; and a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers.

Please contact Talitha Wachtelborn [email protected] with any questions.

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• The closing date for bookings is 17 January 2025. Please fill in the form by this date. We recommend that you make a note of your preferences to avoid double booking, cancellations, and unnecessary extra work for our volunteers.
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