San Francisco Center for the Book

The San Francisco Center for the Book is pleased to welcome back master bookbinders Dominic Riley and Michael Burke, who join us for their annual summer teaching residency in the SFCB bindery. Dominic and Michael will offer a series of workshops which cover a range of bookbinding themes.

Dominic and Michael provide a workshop of interest to anyone interested in the art of the hand-made book. These bookbinding workshops are specifically designed in collaboration with the San Francisco Center for the Book's own bookbinding instructors, so that if you have completed their regular foundational classes throughout the year you will be ready to try some more advanced structures and techniques. Here is complete information about all of the workshops- just click the title to register! We look forward to seeing you in the bindery this summer!

The Ideal Sketchbook with Michael Burke

June 22/ 9:30am – 5:30pm

Presentation Album with Michael Burke

June 23/ 9:30am – 5:30pm

Traditional English Leather Binding with Dominic Riley

June 24 – 28/ 9:30am – 5:30pm

Pastepapers Old and New with Michael Burke

June 29 – 30/ 9:30am – 5:30pm

The Ideal Sketchbook with Michael Burke

July 6/ 9:30am – 5:30pm

Presentation Album with Michael Burke

July 7/ 9:30am – 5:30pm

Book Restoration Intensive with Dominic Riley

July 8 – 12/ 9:30am – 5:30pm

Japanese Tissue Repairs for Leather Bindings with Dominic Riley

July 13 – 14/ 9:30am – 5:30pm

Longstitch and Linkstitch Bindings with Michael Burke

July 15 – 19/ 9:30am – 5:30pm

Account Book Binding with Dominic Riley

July 22 – 26/ 9:30am – 5:30pm

Ethiopian Codex and Traveling Case with Michael Burke

July 27 – 28/ 8:30am – 4:30pm
 

Dominic Riley's Biography

Dominic Riley is an internationally renowned book restorer, fine binder, teacher and film maker. He undertakes work for institutions, book dealers and collectors, and his work is in many important collections worldwide. Now celebrating twenty-five years as a bookbinder, he learnt his craft at the London College of Printing and has worked at binderies in London, New York and San Francisco. He co-founded the bookbinding program at SFCB in 1996, an returns each year to teach. He has won many prizes for his Design Bindings, including both first prizes and the Mansfield Silver Medal in the DB competition in 2007. He travels widely across the UK and USA teaching bookbinding master classes and lecturing. He is Vice-Chairman of the Society of Bookbinders and was elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2008. He has written and presented two full-length films, one about the life and work of well-loved teacher Maureen Duke, and the other a celebration of England’s best known bookbinder, Bernard Middleton. He has his bindery in the Lake District in England, with fellow bookbinder Michael Burke.


Michael Burke's Biography
Michael Burke studied bookbinding with Dominic Riley and paper conservation with Karen Zukor. Michael lives in the Lake District, England, where he teaches bookbinding as well at events across the UK. He is a past chair of the North West and North Wales region of SoB. He has taught for diverse book arts groups in the USA, including Los Angeles, Seattle and Salt Lake City. In recent years he has taught at the Paper and Book Intensive, travelled to São Paulo to teach for the Brazilian group ABER, and in 2011 presented Byzantine binding at the Seminar of the Guild of Bookworkers. Michael researches the structures of ancient and medieval bindings. He is currently studying for a Masters degree in the History of the Book at the University of London.