This  new Batwing Box is a fabulous box  structure to add to your collection of  boxes or to make as a first box. This is a  beautiful box to both make and use. It is  quite ingenious and opens up to reveal  a  rectangular tray  - useful for  transporting your  bookbinding tools or  using on your desk.  This box was  originally developed by Bep  van  Gesteren. You will have a selection of  beautiful  papers, buckrams and ribbons  to choose from thus creating an individual box for you to go home with.

As with other classes, this  workshop is taught so that you will leave  with the skills to be able to make another at home.

All equipment and materials required will be provided, along with step by step demonstration and practice. Suitable for beginners.

Madingley Hall is a lovely venue with Car Parking

A Punching cradle is such a useful addition to your bookbinding tool kit. This one is made in 3 parts and folds down for easy storage and transportation, yet it is very  robust and stable in use. You will spend the morning making your punching cradle and the afternoon putting it to use, making your quarter bound book with a chain stitched spine. As with other classes, this workshop is taught so that you can repeat at home.

All equipment and materials required will be provided along with step by step demonstration and practice. Suitable for beginners.

Madingley Hall is a lovely venue with car parking.

 During this class you  will  learn to make a box with  a  stitched lid, following a  traditional Japanese Stab  bound pattern.  Your box will  also have a  magnetic  fastening.   

 The inside of your box will  be  lined with a beautiful  Japanese paper and the    outside in a co-ordinating  buckram, which is a sturdy  book and box covering  material, of your choice.  You  may decide to have the lid  and plinth in one colour  and  the sides in another.

You will  learn (through demonstration and practice) the all-important skills of cutting and covering. Although we will work to the same template there will be the opportunity to personalise your box with the covering and lining materials and your choice of thread. 

Participants will leave with one completed box along with instructions and skills to reproduce another at home.

Madingley Hall is a lovely venue with car parking.

In this one day class you will learn how to make a hardbound, hand stitched, half bound book. An opportunity to dip your toes into the wonderful world of bookbinding or expand your skills. 

 We will be using a choice of beautiful papers for covers and buckram or bookcloth for the spine and corners.  

You will leave with the skills and materials to reproduce this again at home.  

All materials, tools and equipment will be provided. Suitable for beginners

Madingley Hall is a beautiful venue with car parking.

 A clamshell box is a beautiful enclosure to  learn and use. It is practical as a casing for  books but also for prints, drawings,  photographs and other flat  items. It  consists of two three-sided trays  that  fold elegantly into one another and  when  made, it is a delight to hear the air rush  out of the box as you close it, thereby  leaving the contents safe and protected  from dust. During this one day class we  will construct a clamshell box  using a  mixture of buckram and decorative  papers,  you will leave with your completed box and  for 'homework' the materials to make a hardbound book that will fit into it.

This class is best suited to those with some previous experience of bookbinding or box making.

Madingley Hall is a lovely venue with car parking.

During this one-day class you will learn a 'speedy' leather or vegetarian ‘washable paper’ binding and then construct your own refillable journal with a mixture of papers, envelopes and pockets to suit you,  finished off with an elastic closure. 

This structure is ideal as a Travel Journal or Gardening Journal and would also make a fabulous Cookery Journal with places to pop all those quickly-jotted recipes from friends or the treasured notes from family. The choice will be yours on the day.

Lots of appropriate cover papers will be available but if you have a special one in mind, please bring it along.

Suitable for all, whether you are a beginner or wanting to learn a new book structure.

Madingley Hall is a lovely venue with car parking