Bookbinding Workshops and Tutorials

A sewing station with stacks of books to be finished!
Making classic tools used in book binding such as this bone folder gives a sense of how tools work and how they are used.
Learning engraving using various tools and techniques expands traditional bookbinding materials to include metals used in book furniture..
Using earth pigments and plant materials as well as from metallic oxides gives a range of color to paints and inks. Making writing implements and brushes carries this work a step further.
Learning how to make and write with quills and making ink from scratch expands into calligraphic skill building.
Make a replica of ancient Chinese Bamboo book to learn tool handling and book history.
Studying earlier period books includes book furniture and can involve replicating the work.
Folders and hard back raised cord bindings are intermediate projects also using the student made decorative papers .
Pamphlets and Toji style bindings are beginning projects that use the decorative papers the students also produce.

                      

Workshops from hands-on presentations to weeks long residencies; offerings that can include the many aspects of bookbinding, from early writing, pigment processing (ink and paint making from raw materials) book models from all periods to contemporary artists books, making your own decorative paper to cover them, tools to make books and metal book furniture… I can take you on exciting and intriguing adventures! Please visit the hands-on replicas page for more information.

                     

   Please visit the Contact Me page to order items or custom work: https://dawnartdesign.com/contact-me/