In this workshop you will learn the basics of bookbinding and how to make a hardcover notebook using a variety of different sections and colours of book cloth to create your own personal cover and also how to sew your pages.
Learn about the importance of grain direction in paper, cloth and board as well as how to create a stitching template to hand sew your book block and then paste in to your handmade book cover.
You will be using some of the regular tools of bookbinding and will also be able to create more of your own designs in the future with what you have learnt during the workshop. It is a wonderful opportunity to create a unique handmade notebook to take home with you and to give you inspiration for future projects of your own.
Kate Grimes started making her own sketchbooks having done a few short courses in bookbinding as a way of recording her process whilst studying jewellery on an MA at Middlesex University and she has always kept a journal on and off over the years. Kate started incorporating paper within her work as well as making books for family and friends and found herself being more and more drawn to bookbinding from which Kate Grimes Books has evolved.
Her love of clean, simple design is reflected in her handcrafted notebooks which come in a core collection of colours and design combinations, a variety of binding methods, handmade paste-paper cover books as well as a range of individual handcrafted boxes.
Location:
POW Classroom EX2 41-43 Standard Road, NW10 6HF https://citymapper.com/go/pguszxi5az
