Making of Photo Album → Japanese Binding 22/11

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 Eliška Rom

Eliška studied the field of “Conservation and Restoration of Paper, Books, and Museum Objects” at the Secondary Industrial School of Graphic Arts in Prague. This program, besides restoration itself, involved spending a lot of time creating historical book bindings, copies, and calligraphy. She is currently a master’s student in the “Art History” program at Charles University, focusing primarily on 20th-century architecture. As a restorer working in a museum, she is interested not only in the historical aspects of objects but also in the properties of paper and other materials, and in finding optimal ways to best preserve collection items. Bookbinding fascinates her mainly as a way to artistically shape a three-dimensional object and to connect artistic sensibility with technological knowledge and craftsmanship skills. She shares with Reformát not only a love for bookbinding but also the opportunity for sustainable creation. In workshops, she sees a unique chance to revive the tradition of handmade paper objects and to inspire enthusiasm for this craft among other interested participants.

/ workshop date: Saturday 22/11/2025
/ 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