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Bookbinding class 

Making hinged covers for hardcover stab bindings. We’ll show you the finished books next week!

Japanese bookbinding 

We had a student in today learning to make soft cover Japanese (stab) bindings. Here are the pretty books she made:


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Longstitch binding class 

Here’s a finished student book from last night’s class, with a heavy paper cover made from some of the paste papers we made last month.

Art in the Park

This weekend we took part in Events in the Manor, a fun free exhibit of Art in the Park. Here’s our set-up in the dining room of historic Willistead Manor, ready to demonstrate bookbinding for the public:

It’s more fun doing a demo by teaching somebody, so local artist Julie Bell came by to help out and learned a Japanese stab binding: