Endbands: Five styles workshop
This workshop is not currently scheduled, but it could be in the future. Please contact me if you are interested.
Handsewn endbands are an elegant addition to any binding. They are not difficult to make, and with little a practice you’ll sew them in a flash and remember the technique forever.
Endbands are the idea skill to learn online: the view is so much larger on even the smallest device than you could get peering over the instructor’s shoulder. The recordings will allow you to watch the demo over and over, and at a normal, slowed down or accelerated speed.
Students will learn a variety of endbands practicing first on flat corrugated plastic then sewing on rounded, backed text blocks: rolled leather, paper, or cloth endband; bead on the spine; the ubiquitous two-color bead at the front; three color bead at the front; and finally a multi-color double core endband. Four half-day sessions.
A pair of mini rounded, backed text blocks is not included in the workshop fee, but is available separately. Please note if you will be using your own text blocks: endbands must be sewn prior to casing in or before the cords are fixed into boards.
This workshop requires a finishing press.
This is a fast-paced, intermediate-level workshop for students experienced with traditional binding. Prerequisite: Binding Fundamentals. Students should be making sewn bindings independently, outside a workshop setting.
Each of these endbands can also be taught individually as single-session workshops. Please inquire.
There will not be a handout for this workshop. I recommend:
Greenfield, Jane and Hille, Jenny. Endbands from East to West: How to Work Them. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. An earlier version of this publication would also be fine.
A Select Bibliography of Endbands by Donia Conn and Peter Verheyen available online.
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. Workshop fee includes supplies, which are mailed to arrive in time for the first session. Zoom links will be sent the week before class, and a tool list no later than three weeks in advance. Please check your spam filter if you have not received these messages in this timeframe.
Students outside US and Canada please contact me to discuss options for supplies.
Payment in full is due at time of registration. See FAQs for refund policy.
