Making of Photo Album → Japanese Binding 03/12 (CZ) (Kopírovat) (Kopírovat) (Kopírovat) (Kopírovat)

The course is in Czech language. /// Some of your sophisticated compositions, as well as snapshots, certainly deserve to be developed! And the developed photos deserve a beautiful photo album. Japanese binding is a traditional elegant form of joining an inner book and can be made even by those who are not very good at sewing. At the workshop, we will introduce you to the basic types of decorative stitching and guide you through the process of creating and coating hardcovers. Take home a photo album that will be passed down for generations.

What can you expect at the workshop?

1. Presentation of the Reformat project.
2. Preparation of inner part (completing the pages, gluing the interleaving strips).
3. Choice of materials and motifs for coating the covers
4. Preparation and coating of hardcovers
5. Choice of decorative stitching, creating holes with a paper drill or awl
6. Connection of inner part and covers by sewing with waxed thread

Why come to one of our workshops?

/ We take a sustainable approach to design, we upcycle unused materials. All the paper in our workshop is second hand.
/ History meets new technologies in our bookbinding workshop. During the workshops, you have the opportunity to work with new bookbinding machines as well as ones that are several decades old.

Teacher MgA. Kamila Nováková

She passed through the Book, Papermaking and Graphic Design studios at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, part of the University of West Bohemia. She graduated with a dissertation in the form of a manual for handsewn bookbinding, scissors, paper. The starting point of her work is always the material, and she is interested in its diversity and craftsmanship. She sees the workshops and courses as an exchange of experiences and approaches between partners.

/ workshop date: Saturday 15/10/2022
/ time: 13.00–16.30
/ course capacity max. 8 participants
/ for beginners and the advanced
/ the workshop is suitable for ages 12 and up
/ the workshop price includes materials and components

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