FINISHING CLASS WITH DON ETHERINGTON
Students from around the country joined
AAB this spring for the class on Finishing taught by Don
Etherington. During the first week, students prepared plaquettes and
false spines with raised bands to practice hand lettering for
titling, blind and gold tooling using fillets and palettes, and
making leather labels using the QuickPrint.
Students covered plaquettes in goat,
calf, alum tawed and parchment.
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| False spine and hand lettering tools |
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| Don expertly pulling gold leaf to the cushion |
Calf plaquettes were finished as a
cambridge panel, its distinctive qualities include sprinkling of
the leather and a centered panel design.
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| Cambridge panel |
Students tool black lines
onto leather by holding the tool over an open flame. Carbon deposits are then
tooled into the leather.
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| Eric Nye preparing tool with carbon |
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| Gabby Cooksey tooling carbon line on her cambridge plaquette |
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| Onlays and Inlays by Marc Arend |
Don also demonstrated the handtype
setter and onlays and inlays that students were able to practice
on their own plaquettes.
Second week is the most exciting, students take all the skills they learn in the first week and start tooling on real books! Many of the students brought books in from
previous classes such as Forward and Covering to be finished.
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Katie Anderson's calf, goat, alum tawd, and
cloth.
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| Katy Anderson with her books! |
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| Mark Arend |
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| Eric Nye |
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| The Finishing and Vellum students with Don Etherington |
This class is a requirement for the
Conservation Diploma students.
Posting by Jeanne Goodman, Finishing student.
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