Binding Fundamentals + Leather Working for Bookbinding IN-PERSON workshop.
Wednesday-Sunday | September 10-14, 2025 | 9:30 am-5:30 pm | 5 full-day sessions
Binding Fundamentals
A handsome, functional book is built on a solid foundation of traditional forwarding skills. In this course students will develop and reinforce these skills by going through all the steps of crafting a leather fine binding prior to covering: folding, marking up and punching a text block; crafting endsheets appropriate for board attachment and full opening; sewing on various supports on a sewing frame; rounding and backing the spine; lacing on boards; sewing endbands; spine lining.
Leather Working for Bookbinding
Students will be introduced to the tools and techniques required for fine leather binding. Tools: English or Swiss paring knife, Scharfix, spoke shave. Techniques: lining boards to accept leather; paring for spines, corners, headcaps, and all-over thinning of the leather; paring and edgeparing for onlays; sharpening using microfinishing films; stropping; covering of boards and spines to form corners and headcaps; adhesives and drying procedure for leather binding.
Binding Fundamentals and Leather Working for Bookbinding are prerequisites for all workshops in the Leather Binding Series.
Notes: This is a fast-paced intermediate-level workshop for students with some book arts experience and a strong desire to build skills. Students should be making sewn books independently, outside a workshop setting.
This workshop requires a paring knife, spokeshave, and a Scharfix or Brockman paring machine.
This is an in-person workshop. Details on travel, lodging, and working in the studio in FAQs
Payment in full is due at time of registration. See FAQs for refund policy.
Wednesday-Sunday | September 10-14, 2025 | 9:30 am-5:30 pm | 5 full-day sessions
Binding Fundamentals
A handsome, functional book is built on a solid foundation of traditional forwarding skills. In this course students will develop and reinforce these skills by going through all the steps of crafting a leather fine binding prior to covering: folding, marking up and punching a text block; crafting endsheets appropriate for board attachment and full opening; sewing on various supports on a sewing frame; rounding and backing the spine; lacing on boards; sewing endbands; spine lining.
Leather Working for Bookbinding
Students will be introduced to the tools and techniques required for fine leather binding. Tools: English or Swiss paring knife, Scharfix, spoke shave. Techniques: lining boards to accept leather; paring for spines, corners, headcaps, and all-over thinning of the leather; paring and edgeparing for onlays; sharpening using microfinishing films; stropping; covering of boards and spines to form corners and headcaps; adhesives and drying procedure for leather binding.
Binding Fundamentals and Leather Working for Bookbinding are prerequisites for all workshops in the Leather Binding Series.
Notes: This is a fast-paced intermediate-level workshop for students with some book arts experience and a strong desire to build skills. Students should be making sewn books independently, outside a workshop setting.
This workshop requires a paring knife, spokeshave, and a Scharfix or Brockman paring machine.
This is an in-person workshop. Details on travel, lodging, and working in the studio in FAQs
Payment in full is due at time of registration. See FAQs for refund policy.
Wednesday-Sunday | September 10-14, 2025 | 9:30 am-5:30 pm | 5 full-day sessions
Binding Fundamentals
A handsome, functional book is built on a solid foundation of traditional forwarding skills. In this course students will develop and reinforce these skills by going through all the steps of crafting a leather fine binding prior to covering: folding, marking up and punching a text block; crafting endsheets appropriate for board attachment and full opening; sewing on various supports on a sewing frame; rounding and backing the spine; lacing on boards; sewing endbands; spine lining.
Leather Working for Bookbinding
Students will be introduced to the tools and techniques required for fine leather binding. Tools: English or Swiss paring knife, Scharfix, spoke shave. Techniques: lining boards to accept leather; paring for spines, corners, headcaps, and all-over thinning of the leather; paring and edgeparing for onlays; sharpening using microfinishing films; stropping; covering of boards and spines to form corners and headcaps; adhesives and drying procedure for leather binding.
Binding Fundamentals and Leather Working for Bookbinding are prerequisites for all workshops in the Leather Binding Series.
Notes: This is a fast-paced intermediate-level workshop for students with some book arts experience and a strong desire to build skills. Students should be making sewn books independently, outside a workshop setting.
This workshop requires a paring knife, spokeshave, and a Scharfix or Brockman paring machine.
This is an in-person workshop. Details on travel, lodging, and working in the studio in FAQs
Payment in full is due at time of registration. See FAQs for refund policy.
