American Bookbinders Museum
Saturday, June 14
Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Easy Inlays
Inlays are a subtractive decorative element used on book covers using decorative paper, cloth or leather. They appear challenging, and many are, but can be easily accomplished using basic bookbinding techniques. You will construct a case binding, size your inlay, cutout the inlay, and add ...
Saturday, July 12
Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Chicago Screw Post Binding
Join the American Bookbinders Museum for a monthly workshop to create your own Chicago Screw Post binding. It is named after the manufacturer, the Chicago Screw Company est. 1872. This hinged binding uses screw posts to secure its pages in lieu of a spine.
Screw post ...
Saturday, August 9
Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Rebinding Paperbacks
Recycle, Reuse–Rebind!
Everyone has an old paperback book they love, but its cover’s are creased, ripped or have gone missing. Due to the ephemeral nature of a perfect binding (glued spine, thin paper covers), paperbacks don’t withstand as much wear and tear as that of a ...
Saturday, September 13
Monthly Bookbinding Workshop: Limp Wrapper
You will explore the Coptic binding style with a limp wrapper cover. This is a beginner to intermediate bookbinding workshop where you will fold, collate, trim and Coptic sew a text block—then cover it with a limp wrapper.
Coptic stitching is one of the oldest know ...
