Upcoming Classes
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.
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.
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.
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
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