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Make Your Own Traditional Artist’s Portfolio
Traditional Artist's Portfolios. Timeless and stylish, the cachet portfolio is how artists have been storing and transporting their work for centuries. Perfect for drawings, paintings, photographs and prints; make a portfolio that is as beautiful as its contents. This design classic has robust, hard covers, 3 internal flaps and ribbon ties. Choose from a selection of beautiful cover papers, ribbon and bookcloth to create a unique portfolio that is far too cool for art school! You will make one portfolio…
Find out more »Make Your Own Photograph Albums
This one-day workshop is the perfect introduction to stab bindings; the method of holding pages together that are punched or pierced by lacing with cords or using binding posts. This construction of books also lends itself perfectly to display pocket portfolios, scrap books and postcard albums. You will make a handsome photograph album, complete with page guards, interleaves and metal menu corners held together with metal binding posts and the front cover can feature your own photograph or illustration. All…
Find out more »Introduction to Bookbinding
This is Learn Bookbinding’s most popular course. Introduction to Bookbinding. You will learn traditional multi-signature binding, suitable for complete beginners. You will take home at least one beautiful hard-backed half-cloth book that you have made yourself, from start to finish. All tools and materials are provided for the day. Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided. This workshop is not suitable for children, minimum age 13. This Workshop will be held at my studio situated in Boutport Street in the centre…
Find out more »Make Your Own Sketchbook / Artist’s Journal
Spend a day making a custom book that meets your own creative requirements, filled with either heavy all media cartridge paper or a mixture of quality artist's papers including pastel paper and watercolour paper. You will take home a really beautiful quality, large hard-back sketchbook with attention to detail including decorative endpapers, headbands, a bookmarker ribbon and protective metal corners. The cover can feature your own artwork; either full-bound in bookcloth with a small inset print or half-bound in bookcloth…
Find out more »Leather Midori Style Traveller’s Notebook
In recent years Midori Traveller’s Notebooks have reached a cult status among the analogue notekeepers, bullet journalers and stationary lovers of this world and its not hard to understand why. Of all the books I make, my traveller’s journal is my favourite. It is the perfect balance of form and function. In this one-day, no-glue workshop you will make your own full-size traveller’s notebook with a robust, thick, quality pull-up leather cover in a colour of your choosing and a…
Find out more »Introduction to Bookbinding
This is Learn Bookbinding’s most popular course. Introduction to Bookbinding. You will learn traditional multi-signature binding, suitable for complete beginners. You will take home at least one beautiful hard-backed half-cloth book that you have made yourself, from start to finish. All tools and materials are provided for the day. Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided. This workshop is not suitable for children, minimum age 13. This Workshop will be held at my studio situated in Boutport Street in the centre…
Find out more »Make Your Own Hollow-Backed Journal
If you have already attended the Introduction to bookbinding workshop and would like to take your skills to the next level, this is the workshop for you. You will use a sewing frame and a lying press to make a traditional hollow back book. The signatures are sewn onto tapes and the book-block is rounded; the book has a convex curved spine and a concave curved fore-edge. You will take home a beautiful A5 half-bound journal with over 300 pages…
Find out more »Leather Midori Style Traveller’s Notebook
In recent years Midori Traveller’s Notebooks have reached a cult status among the analogue notekeepers, bullet journalers and stationary lovers of this world and its not hard to understand why. Of all the books I make, my traveller’s journal is my favourite. It is the perfect balance of form and function. In this one-day, no-glue workshop you will make your own full-size traveller’s notebook with a robust, thick, quality pull-up leather cover in a colour of your choosing and a…
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