Holiday and Every Day: Another quick notebook. Online workshop.

$75.00
No Longer Available

Holiday and Every Day: Another quick notebook

This workshop is not currently scheduled, but it could be in the future. Please contact me if you are interested.

This workshop is a more robust alternative to the Quick Stack of Notebooks workshop offered last fall.

The German Stiffened Paper Binding is a quick and sturdy binding for a notebook or rebind of a text that needs to be available for immediate use. The covers can be as rigid or as flexible as you wish.

Cardstock or thin boards are glued directly to the outer leaves. The book is covered in a single piece of paper that is fully-adhered to the spine and boards. Bookcloth that will not fray at the edges could also be used. Our model will be double-fan adhesive bound, a quick, sturdy, and useful method for binding single sheets. A sewn text block works equally well and the endsheets and covering for one of these will also be demonstrated.

Read about the history of this structure here and here.

Once you learn the technique, you can construct this book in less than an hour, and a stack of them in an afternoon. Start using your notebook as soon as the adhesive is dry or make a mountain of them to have a selection of handmade gifts always ready.

In this workshop you will make at least one notebook. If you work quickly, you are welcome to prepare a sewn text block prior to class and cover that book during the session as well. Your finished book plus detailed instructions will be a valuable reference for future work.

Note: Students must provide their own supplies for this workshop. Scroll down for the tool and supply list.

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. A Zoom link will be sent the week before class. Please check your spam filter if you have not received the link within 24 hours of the session.

Payment in full is due at time of registration. See FAQs for refund policy.

Holiday and Every Day: Another quick notebook

This workshop is not currently scheduled, but it could be in the future. Please contact me if you are interested.

This workshop is a more robust alternative to the Quick Stack of Notebooks workshop offered last fall.

The German Stiffened Paper Binding is a quick and sturdy binding for a notebook or rebind of a text that needs to be available for immediate use. The covers can be as rigid or as flexible as you wish.

Cardstock or thin boards are glued directly to the outer leaves. The book is covered in a single piece of paper that is fully-adhered to the spine and boards. Bookcloth that will not fray at the edges could also be used. Our model will be double-fan adhesive bound, a quick, sturdy, and useful method for binding single sheets. A sewn text block works equally well and the endsheets and covering for one of these will also be demonstrated.

Read about the history of this structure here and here.

Once you learn the technique, you can construct this book in less than an hour, and a stack of them in an afternoon. Start using your notebook as soon as the adhesive is dry or make a mountain of them to have a selection of handmade gifts always ready.

In this workshop you will make at least one notebook. If you work quickly, you are welcome to prepare a sewn text block prior to class and cover that book during the session as well. Your finished book plus detailed instructions will be a valuable reference for future work.

Note: Students must provide their own supplies for this workshop. Scroll down for the tool and supply list.

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. A Zoom link will be sent the week before class. Please check your spam filter if you have not received the link within 24 hours of the session.

Payment in full is due at time of registration. See FAQs for refund policy.

TOOLS

Essential

  • bone or teflon folder

  • small cutting mat

  • scalpel, olfa or x-acto knife and extra blades

  • scissors

  • 12" ruler that can be cut against

  • small and large glue brushes

  • pencil

  • PVA

  • a finishing press or two lengths of 1x4" wood 6.5" long and two C Clamps (see image in gallery for this workshop)

  • pair of clean press boards, roughly 6x9” is ideal, but anything larger than 5x7” will work

  • this project will benefit from a nipping press if you have one, otherwise as much weight as you can stack on top of your press boards

Optional

  • 12x¼” brass strip available at the hardware store

  • Small paint roller and pan for quick application of adhesive

  • PVA/methyl cellulose mix

  • whatever tools not on this list you always find useful

Would be very lovely to have but completely unnecessary

  • guillotine, stack cutter or plough

  • heavy-duty corner-rounder

MATERIALS

Unless noted, all materials are grain direction parallel to the spine. Dimensions below are (height) x (width).

For the double-fan adhesive binding that will be demoed in class

  • text paper, 64 sheets @ 6.25 x 4.25”

    • these are single sheets, not folios

  • endsheets, text weight 2 @ 6.25 x 8.5” unfolded (6.25 x 4.25” folded)

    • these are single folios

  • boards: 20 pt card 2 @ 6.25 x 4.125”

  • decorative paper for wrapper 1 @ 6.5 x 9.5”

  • barriers: 20 pt card 2 @ 6. 5 x 4.5” (either grain direction, these will not be part of the book)

 

For an optional, second book with a sewn text block

  • text paper, 32 sheets @ 6.25 x 8.5” folded into 8 sections, 4 folios each

  • endsheets, text weight 2 @ 6.25 x 9” unfolded (6.25 x 4.25” folded)

    • these are single folios hooked around the first and last sections before sewing

  • cloth spine lining 1 @ 6.25 x 2.5”

  • boards: 20 pt card 2 @ 6.25 x 4.125”

  • decorative paper for wrapper 1 @ 6.5 x 9.5”

  • barriers: 20 pt card 2 @ 6. 5 x 4.5” (either grain direction, these will not be part of the book)

  • awl

  • needle

  • beeswax for sewing

  • 35/3 thread

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