Making of Photo Album → Japanese Binding 25/10

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 our work, 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 Tereza Vaňková

Tereza has been involved in bookbinding since her studies at Hellichova College, where she specialized in Book Design. She later deepened her interest in graphic and visual arts at the University of Hradec Králové, studying Graphic Art & Multimedia and Art Education. She has extensive experience leading art workshops for children. Tereza specializes in bookbinding and linocut, focusing mainly on creating photo albums and notebooks with various binding styles.

/ workshop date: Saturday 25/10/2025
/ 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