Celebrating its sixth year, the Kerrytown BookFest features a number of on-going events and activities held simultaneously in the Kerrytown Farmers’ Market, Kerrytown Concert House, and at Hollander’s School of Book & Paper Arts. Booths in the outdoor market area will include local booksellers, book artists, bookbinders, letterpress printers, libraries, and many on-going demonstrations by Hollander’s teachers and graduates. There will also be free book appraisals and answers for your bookbinding and book repair questions.

Hollander’s will sponsor four free mini workshops outdoors and a number of fine binding presentations in their school. (See our Workshop Schedule to register). For children, there will be a large tent with activities including paper art projects, book making, papermaking, paper marbling, fish printing, and storytelling.

For the full schedule of events and participants or for more information, visit the official Kerrytown BookFest website at www.kerrytownbookfest.org

Hollander’s Free Workshops (Held in the Farmers’ Market)

11:00 Exposed Spine Sewing — Cynthia May. Participants will make a 3” x 3” folded signature book using a sewing technique called a kettle stitch.

12:30 Three Simple Book Structures — Eric Alstrom. Includes an accordion, a single signature pamphlet, and a Japanese-style, side sewn book. Bone folder optional.

2:00 Canvas Pamphlet Book — Donna Engstrom. Learn to sew a one signature pamphlet stitch with a decorated canvas cover. A button closure will finish this structure.

3:30 Flutter Book — Barbara Brown. A hard cover “Flutter Book” with decorated pages, reminiscent of the old “cootie catchers”. Bring a glue brush if you have one.

Hollander’s Presentations (Held in Hollander’s School)

11:00 Book Arts Road Trip with Karen Hanmer. Karen presents a survey of contemporary book arts which includes a broad range of various book artists’ works from traditional leather bindings to sculptural works with sometimes only a vaguereference to the book form. Karen will show images and give insights into the thoughts of the artists through their own words.

12:00 A Fine History: the Coptic Contribution to Bookbinding with Julia Miller. Julia talks about the early development of the codex both in terms of structure and decorative style. She will bring a group of binding models from her collection, representing an extended 'family' of early bindings including Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian and Islamic.

1:00 Sculptural Fine Binding Designs with Jon Buller. The owner of the Bessenberg Bindery in Ann Arbor will present an early 19^th century approach on how to add a third dimension to a cover. It will include showing several of his own sculptural fine bindings, including Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea”. Jon will also do a demonstration showing the technique he uses and the various stages of the process.

2:00 Unique Repairs from the Bentley Historical Library with Jim Craven. Jim will talk about some of the unique experiences and show projects he has worked on in the past 50 years as a master bookbinder and head conservator at the University of Michigan Historical Library. Included will be the complete restoration of a 19^th century map he received in tatters and a repair of a very rare edition of the Book of Martyrs.

3:00 – 5:00 Fine Design Bindings with Don Etherington and Monique Lallier. Don and Monique are regarded as two of the world’s premier fine design binders. A unique slide presentation will illustrate the similarities and differences in their two styles of design bindings and how each has influenced the other. Bindings from their personal collections will also be presented. Don and Monique are Co-Honorary Chairs of this year’s Kerrytown BookFest.