Making of Photo Album → Japanese Binding 29/03

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 Mgr. Veronika Zavřelová

Visual art educator and artist, a graduate of the Master’s program in Art Education at the Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague. Currently, she teaches at a music and art school (ZUŠ). Teaching is a fulfilling way for her to share ideas and connect with other interesting creative processes and perceptions. Veronika has been actively involved in bookbinding since 2021.

/ workshop date: Saturday 29/03/2025
/ 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