Bookbinder’s Compendium: practical techniques to make your work more efficient, more elegant, or both.
This workshop is not currently scheduled, but it could be in the future. Please contact me if you are interested.
One three-hour session. Demo only.
Join me for a demonstration session of practical techniques to make your bench work more efficient, more elegant, or both. This demo will take you from folding paper into signatures to shaping and lining the spine, then end with a few final steps to tidy up a just-completed book.
Techniques include:
Tips for measuring, marking up, sewing, tidying up ragged text blocks, and shaping and lining spines
Rolled endband made from leather, unbacked cloth, or thin decorative paper
Sizing cloth with methyl cellulose: the treated cloth will be stiff enough to be dimensionally stable when cutting to size and applying as hinges or spine linings
Flexi endsheet: a clever little flange hides the messy back of hand-decorated paper without introducing the stiffness that comes from gluing the decorative paper to the adjacent leaf (the traditional “made” endsheet)
Sewing cord made from linen thread: the resulting cord can be any color or thickness
Game-changers for casing in
To present as many techniques as possible, this session will be demo only. Questions are encouraged. In addition, a lengthy handout provides instructions and lists the necessary tools and supplies for each technique presented.
The online format is a series of live tutorials via Zoom. The tutorials are recorded and the videos are available to registered students for 90 days. Students need not be present for the live sessions. Zoom links will be sent the week before class. Please check your spam filter if you have not received the link.
Payment in full is due at time of registration. See FAQs for refund policy.
