bookbinding basics

Recently I attended a bookbinding workshop at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.

It was an ambitious class, with a few too many projects for the 6 hours allotted, but I had a blast learning and surveying all the techniques.

We made a mini ‘origami’ book that can house strips of fortune cookie fortunes.

It makes an adorable necklace too.

This book is made of one sheet of letter-sized paper folded into the pink cover without any adhesives.

Next up was an accordion book.

Basic book-sewing skills created a small journal.

The challenging binding project became my homework.

 

I look forward to completing this book when I have a weekend without other workshops to attend.

I’m also looking forward to filling these pages.