Dear Everyone ~
I’ve been percolating about new workshops to encourage students to rethink how you think about your pages: how they function, and how you can decide which binding style best accommodates them. I am delighted to announce that I have come up with not one, but two, workshops, which I will preview by saying: Pages are all the rage!
Book of Engaging Pages is a two-part workshop in which you will learn to make four different styles of page: a pocket-page, a 4-page signature; a 3-panel gate-folded page, and a “booklet-within-the-book” holding a 4-page concertina. You will bind your pages into a beautiful book measuring 6 x 7½ x 1½, using the Long-stitch technique. As the frosting on the binding, you will make envelope/pockets inside your front and back covers.
The materials I’ve selected for your Book of Engaging Pages are themselves engaging, of course. You have three options for your kit, from my current favourite Japanese Chiyogami & Katazome patterns: Wild Strawberries, Cloud Peaks, and Woven Mums, each with complementary waxed-linen thread.
In Pocket Book, you will learn to make a Japanese 4-hole binding with an articulated cover, measuring 7⅛ x 7¾ x ¾. Your book will have 12 pages: 5 hand-folded, hinged pocket pages, interleaved with 7 pages of Stonehenge drawing paper. Students will also learn how to make spine spacers, which increase the thickness of a spine and provide space between pages. Spacers are important when you’re making a book to hold photographs, swatches, or ephemera, or, in this instance, pockets that need room to hold things.
The materials I’ve selected for this kit are also three of my favourite Japanese Chiyogami & Katazome papers: Celebration, Village, and Classic Mums—paired with complementary bookcloths & waxed-linen thread.
No previous bookbinding experience is necessary to have your book(s) be a paging success! For Pocket Book, a bit of glueing experience is a plus but not a must. You will have ample time during each step to ask questions while we work. As always, I will live record all workshop sessions, and these will be available to you later the same afternoon to watch and rewatch at your leisure.If you have any questions now, please feel free to call or e me to discuss!
Book of Engaging Pages
Pocket Book
Flipping excited, Bari