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Introduction to Bookmaking: Sewn Bindings, July 2025

with Brittany Murray

July 12, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 4:30 pm

$184.00

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Saturday, July 12, 10:30am-4:30pm

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About this Workshop:

This workshop will introduce you to the basics of bookbinding, including appropriate materials and tools needed to make your own notebooks, journals, or albums. The two book structures taught will be a French Link Journal-Sketchbook (an exposed spine sewn binding) and a Single Section Case Bound Notebook (a small hard-covered book). In addition to learning how to sew signatures and properly cover boards for hard-covered books, the class will provide an overview of tools needed in a basic bookbinding tool kit and concepts to consider when designing book content and structures. By the end of the course, you will be able to adapt these structures to suit your needs, as well as have a strong foundation for furthering your bookbinding skills.

Level: Beginner – no experience necessary

Registration closes July 5, 2025. Materials fees are included with registration to cover the materials supplied in class. A small list of optional items will also be provided to students to gather/bring to class.

Sample images by Nathalie Ryan

CLASS MATERIALS LIST:

Registration includes a $25 materials fee to cover consumable materials provided in class, including paper, thread, and glue. Students may want to bring the following items:

  • (optional) Personal apron (we’ll have extras) and/or wear clothes that can get messy
  • (optional) Notepad and pen for taking notes
  • (optional) Any personal tools you prefer to use (though we’ll have plenty on hand for you to use) – scissors, bonefolder, awl, ruler, X-acto knife, etc.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Brittany Murray is a burgeoning library and archive conservator living in Washington, DC. She is currently in her final year at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and will be interning at the Library of Congress. Brittany enjoys making historic book structures, researching the use of lead in historic bookmaking processes, and learning about different archival materials. When she is not at Pyramid Atlantic, Brittany can be found wandering the galleries of a museum, watching horror movies, and spending time with her cat Goose.

 

 

“Brittany was super! I really enjoyed this class and would love to take another led by her.“

—Workshop Participant, Make+Take: Single-quire Coptic Binding