Upcoming Workshops
All the Basics - £500
This course covers all the basic structures of hard back cloth bound books - quarter, half and full bindings, single and multi-section, including rounding and backing, ploughing edges, suitable for beginners - min 3, max 5 participants - 5 days
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Single Section Pamphlet Binding - £95
This structure covers many techniques that form the bedrock of Western bookbinding - folding a section, sewing pages together, adding endpapers, making a case and casing in. From a few simple materials we will make a hand sewn, hard back book that is sure to impress - suitable for beginners. min 3, max 5 participants - 2.5 hours
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Aspects of Fine Binding - £500
We create a book from scratch, rounded and backed and covered in leather, but paying particular attention to those elements that are considered essential in a fine binding - leather jointed endpapers, leather doublures, sewn endbands. Suitable for those who have a good working knowledge of basic bookbinding techniques and some experience of working with leather - min 3, max 5 participants - 5 days.
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My First Leather Binding - £300
Everything you need to know about the basics of binding a book in leather - sewing sections, rounding and backing, trimming edges, adding headbands, attaching boards, making a hollow, paring leather, covering with leather, putting down endpapers - 3 days - some bookbinding experience required - min 3, max 5 participants
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Long stitch leather journal - £95
A simple yet highly elegant binding that dates back to the thirtieth century. The cover is a piece of finest Italian calfskin with a matching wraparound thong closure. The pages are stitched directly to the cover and the structure allows the pages to open out flat making it ideal for an artist’s sketchbook or journaling - suitable for beginners - min 3, max 5 participants - 2.5 hours
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Japanese Stab Sewn Binding - £95
This structure covers many techniques that form the bedrock of Western bookbinding - folding a section, sewing pages together, adding endpapers, making a case and casing in. From a few simple materials we will make a hand sewn, hard back book that is sure to impress - suitable for beginners. min 3, max 5 participants - 2.5 hours
Email Kate for details and then use this link to purchase
Single Section Pamphlet Binding - £95
This structure covers many techniques that form the bedrock of Western bookbinding - folding a section, sewing pages together, adding endpapers, making a case and casing in. From a few simple materials we will make a hand sewn, hard back book that is sure to impress - suitable for beginners
Email Kate for details and then use this link to purchase
min 3, max 5 participants - 2.5 hours - £95