Scroll in a Box (Pewsey, Wiltshire, UK)

The workshop’s focus is the construction of a box suitable for small, vertically rolled items. The prototype was specifically designed for the housing of parchment and paper scrolls held by the Marciana National Library in Venice. The design addresses the multiple functions of storage, accessibility and safe display in exhibitions.

The main structures of this box are two paper elements: 1) a cylinder (made from Hedi Kyle’s blizzard book) to roll up the scroll, and 2) a sloped element to support the base at a desired angle.

Beginning with the construction of a small scroll, in the ancient technique of strip connections, participants will create the two core elements and then construct the box with the supporting slope.

This highly unusual class is ideal for conservators, creative bookbinders and book artists.

Some experience required. Ask if in doubt.

Location/Venue: Lori Sauer Bindery
For more info & pictures: https://tinyurl.com/y93slmdb
Cost/Fee: £295 (approx. US$387 as Sep 24, 2018)
Material/Studio fee: Included?
To sign up: https://tinyurl.com/yanzdzbe

Their workshop calendar: https://tinyurl.com/y85qt5r7

Instructor: Claudia Benvestito has been a book conservator at the Marciana National Library in Venice since 1999. From 1992 to 1995, she trained at the European Course for Conservators/Restorers of Book Materials in Spoleto. Italy. Courses were taught by some of the leading specialists in the field including Christopher Clarkson, Nicholas Pickwoad, Anthony Cains, Tom and Sylvia Albro, and Robert Futernick. She then trained at the library of Congress in Washington D.C. under the supervision of Tom Albro II. Claudia is especially interested in the physical structure and behavior of books and bookbindings. She has worked out solutions for the preservation and/or the display of her library’s archival materials, the main aim of her preservation enclosures being to reduce the direct manipulation of each object while respecting its own shape.