Previous Workshops – Calligraphers’ Guild Of Western Australia

The Calligraphers’ Guild holds workshops on a regular basis using local, interstate or overseas tutors. Subjects are about calligraphy or related to calligraphy. The workshops are suitable for both beginners and more advanced calligraphers.

Saturday 27th September: Book binding with Martin Dickie

Martin began his Bookbinding workshop with a walk through the day’s proceedings. The room was set up with a series of workstations starting with the paper. Paper for the books was supplied by Zartart https://zartart.com.au. At each station Martin provided tools and instructions. Workstations included a Folding station, bone folder tools provided to crease the pages. A Piercing station, with awls and cork mats, a Cut covers station to cut strawboards, materials and make templates. A Threads station, hanks of threads, candles and beeswax blocks. Other stations, include gluing, cutting, and an area for ironing the material for the covers.

Above: Martin at his bookbinding workshop explaining the various workstations to be used.

At the September meeting in 2024, Colleen Keelty, a longtime member of the Guild made a very passionate presentation of her workshop on Rudolph Koch. Colleen asked members to choose a Rudolf Koch period:
1. Arts and Crafts which included open gothic like Fruhling.
2. The Blue period, black monoline with colouring.
3. His most famous style the very textural gothic.
4. Ornate capitals.

Rudolf Koch (20 November 1876 – 9 April 1934) was a German font designer, professor, and a master of lettering, calligraphy, typography and illustration. Commonly known for his typefaces created for the Klingspor Type Foundry, his most widely used typefaces include Neuland and Kabel. Source Wikipedia

“The making of letters in any form is my purest and greatest pleasure.” Rudolph Koch

**Kabel** is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Rudolf Koch and released by the Klingspor foundry in 1927

**Neuland** type also came from Koch’s penmanship, as shown later with his shadow work.

Janelle Macgregor – Textural gothic was her choice.

Workshop attendees Sue and Zoe, concentrating on their practice sheets

“Deep Practice Sound Learning” – A Zoom Workshop held by Gemma Black 23 July 2025 – see below.
Thanks to Martin and Susie for organising all the technical requirements to hold the workshop, that went off without a hitch. Another great workshop presentation by Gemma with much thought-provoking work for us to continue on with.