Tour of the bookbinding workshop

Name: Tour of the bookbinding workshop
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Médiathèque Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How is a book made? How is a binding made? What is a sewing machine? The binding workshop opens its doors to discover the behind-the-scenes of exceptional know-how.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 10:00, 11:30, 14:00, 15:30Passed

Conditions

Group limited to 18 people. On registration from 1 September 2022

Registration

0479600404 patrimoine@mairie-chambery.fr

Malou Pictures/Bibliothèques municipales de Chambéry

Discover a unique know-how. How is a book made? How is a binding made? What is a sewing machine? What’s the point of a bunch of beatings? When an old or modern document enters the collections of the media library, it goes through the bookbinding workshop which will give it a little beauty: sewing, dusting, scrubbing, small repairs… The binding workshop exceptionally opens its doors to you to discover the behind-the-scenes of exceptional know-how.

About the location

Médiathèque Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Carré Curial, 73000 Chambéry, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Savoie
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The Jean-Jacques Rousseau media library, origin of which goes back up(raises) to the 18th century, is a local listed(classified) library(bookcase) which keeps(preserves) an important fund(collection) of rare and precious, old(former) books.