Binding

SFCB's bookbinding courses range from the enduring structures of both Western and Eastern traditions to contemporary approaches, with a wealth of bookmaking techniques in between, including pamphlets, pop-ups, exposed sewing stitches, protective boxes, photo albums and more.

Workshops: Binding

Title Instructor Summary Status
Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: June 22, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: June 22, 2013, 5:30 PM
Michael Burke

Strong, elegant, and pleasing to use, this was the “daybook” of choice for the great Romantic English poets and artists.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: June 23, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: June 23, 2013, 5:30 PM
Michael Burke

This ingeniously designed album is a new offering from Michael Burke this year, and is the perfect accompaniment to the Ideal Sketchbook. This structure is an extremely elegant one suitable for presenting suites of prints, drawings or photographs

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Binding
Sessions: 5
Start: June 24, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: June 28, 2013, 5:30 PM
Dominic Riley

This style of binding immerged in the English tradition in the 1830s. It was immensely popular for both ‘ordinary’ work (that is, inexpensive bindings which were simply decorated) and ‘extra work’ (fancier bindings with more gold tooling). It remains today the method for making fine leather bindings.

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Binding, Printing Open Print Studio
Sessions: 1
Start: June 28, 2013, 5:00 PM
End: June 28, 2013, 10:00 PM

Open Studio is a great way to print or bind your own projects. A trained and qualified volunteer is always on hand to answer questions.

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Binding, Arts
Sessions: 2
Start: June 29, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: June 30, 2013, 5:30 PM
Michael Burke

Explore the joys of making your own historical decorated papers, then experiment with contemporary designs and inventive techniques.

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Binding, Printing Open Print Studio
Sessions: 1
Start: July 5, 2013, 5:00 PM
End: July 5, 2013, 10:00 PM

Open Studio is a great way to print or bind your own projects. A trained and qualified volunteer is always on hand to answer questions.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: July 6, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: July 6, 2013, 5:30 PM
Michael Burke

Strong, elegant, and pleasing to use, this binding was the “daybook” of choice for the great Romantic English poets and artists. Learn this structure in this full day class with Master Binder Michael Burke.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: July 7, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: July 7, 2013, 5:30 PM
Michael Burke

This ingeniously designed album is a new offering from Michael Burke this year, and is the perfect accompaniment to the Ideal Sketchbook. This structure is an extremely elegant one suitable for presenting suites of prints, drawings or photographs

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Binding
Sessions: 5
Start: July 8, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: July 12, 2013, 5:30 PM
Dominic Riley

In this class, Master Bookbinder, Dominic Riley demonstrates all aspects of the restoration of cloth bindings. The workshop will begin by pulling the signatures of the book, cleaning the dirty pages and performing simple tear repairs.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: July 8, 2013, 6:30 PM
End: July 8, 2013, 9:30 PM
Rhiannon Alpers

One workshop, five booklets! Ever been curious about how to make a book? Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. In this three-hour workshop, learn basic bookbinding structures and stitches that every book artist should know.

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Binding, Printing Open Print Studio
Sessions: 1
Start: July 12, 2013, 5:00 PM
End: July 12, 2013, 10:00 PM

Open Studio is a great way to print or bind your own projects. A trained and qualified volunteer is always on hand to answer questions.

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Binding
Sessions: 2
Start: July 13, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: July 14, 2013, 5:30 PM
Dominic Riley

When leather bindings break at the joints, the traditional approach is to reback the binding with leather. In this workshop, Dominic will show how to use Japanese tissue as an effective alternative.

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Binding
Sessions: 5
Start: July 15, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: July 19, 2013, 5:30 PM
Michael Burke

Explore this fascinating style of limp binding, which offers many creative possibilities to today's book artist as well as presenting an interesting overview of historical sewing structures, both practical and decorative.

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Binding, Printing Open Print Studio
Sessions: 1
Start: July 16, 2013, 5:00 PM
End: July 16, 2013, 10:00 PM

Open Studio is a great way to print or bind your own projects. A trained and qualified volunteer is always on hand to answer questions.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: July 20, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: July 20, 2013, 5:30 PM
Judith Serebrin

Learn a historically inspired binding technique, the crossed-structure binding, in this workshop for novice to advanced bookbinders.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: July 21, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: July 21, 2013, 5:30 PM
Andrew Rottner

Protect books in elegant full cloth-covered slipcases for books. Learn the tricks of constructing durable and attractive book slipcases working from a template provided by the instructor.

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Binding
Sessions: 5
Start: July 22, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: July 26, 2013, 5:30 PM
Dominic Riley

The is second of Dominic Riley's new leather classes at SFCB. This style, also known as Ledger Binding, is the quintessential Victorian structure, and about as close to Steampunk as it gets!

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Binding, Printing Open Print Studio
Sessions: 1
Start: July 23, 2013, 5:00 PM
End: July 23, 2013, 10:00 PM

Open Studio is a great way to print or bind your own projects. A trained and qualified volunteer is always on hand to answer questions.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: July 25, 2013, 6:30 PM
End: July 25, 2013, 9:30 PM
Nina Zeininger-Byrne

One workshop, five booklets! Ever been curious about how to make a book? Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. In this three-hour workshop, learn basic bookbinding structures and stitches that every book artist should know.

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Binding
Sessions: 2
Start: July 27, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: July 28, 2013, 5:30 PM
Michael Burke

The traditional method of binding books in Ethiopia survived relatively unchanged for over a thousand years. This workshop will yield a flexible non-adhesive book that opens fully.

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Binding
Sessions: 4
Start: July 28, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: August 18, 2013, 5:30 PM
Rhiannon Alpers

Learn how to construct four hardcover, hand-bound, multisection books over the course of this bookbinding workshop series. Each binding in the series will add to the skills previously learned and integrate new techniques. Become familiar with bookbinding's basic vocabulary, its fundamental tools and their uses, as well as the materials (paper, cloth, board, and adhesives) and techniques (folding, sewing, and gluing) of the craft.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: July 30, 2013, 6:30 PM
End: July 30, 2013, 9:30 PM
Rhiannon Alpers

Open up the range of possibilities for the look and feel of book, box, and portfolio covers by learning two methods for making book cloth.

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Binding, Printing Open Print Studio
Sessions: 1
Start: July 31, 2013, 5:00 PM
End: July 31, 2013, 10:00 PM

Open Studio is a great way to print or bind your own projects. A trained and qualified volunteer is always on hand to answer questions.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: August 3, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: August 3, 2013, 5:30 PM
Juliayn Coleman

Upcycling is the method of using waste materials to create useful products, like the journals that will be made in this workshop. Disassemble an old hardcover book, leaving its signatures mostly intact, and interleave the signatures with blank journal paper.

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Binding, Printing Open Print Studio
Sessions: 1
Start: August 8, 2013, 5:00 PM
End: August 8, 2013, 10:00 PM

Open Studio is a great way to print or bind your own projects. A trained and qualified volunteer is always on hand to answer questions.

Open
Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: August 15, 2013, 6:30 PM
End: August 15, 2013, 9:30 PM
James Tucker

Learn to use the Kwikprint gold foil stamping machine, essential for lustrous, professional-quality titling.

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Binding, Printing Open Print Studio
Sessions: 1
Start: August 16, 2013, 5:00 PM
End: August 16, 2013, 10:00 PM

Open Studio is a great way to print or bind your own projects. A trained and qualified volunteer is always on hand to answer questions.

Open
Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: August 17, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: August 17, 2013, 5:30 PM
Judith Serebrin

Make charming little books with colorful papers and threads using sturdy handmade papers as sewing supports. This workshop will explore many creative variations on exposed-spine sewings, including crossed structure, long stitch, and link stitch.

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Binding, Printing Open Print Studio
Sessions: 1
Start: August 21, 2013, 5:00 PM
End: August 21, 2013, 10:00 PM

Open Studio is a great way to print or bind your own projects. A trained and qualified volunteer is always on hand to answer questions.

Open
Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: August 24, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: August 24, 2013, 5:30 PM
Nina Zeininger-Byrne

In this workshop students will delve into the expanding and contracting world of the book, learning four different ways to make an accordion binding.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: August 25, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: August 25, 2013, 5:30 PM
Juliayn Coleman

Learn to use the Ascona tool for freeform drawing on leather book covers in this unique one­ day workshop.

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Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: August 28, 2013, 6:30 PM
End: August 28, 2013, 9:30 PM
Rhiannon Alpers

Learn basic bookbinding structures and stitches that every book artist should know in this three-hour workshop. If you’ve ever been curious about how to make a book, Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. One workshop, five booklets!

Open
Binding, Printing Open Print Studio
Sessions: 1
Start: August 30, 2013, 5:00 PM
End: August 30, 2013, 10:00 PM

Open Studio is a great way to print or bind your own projects. A trained and qualified volunteer is always on hand to answer questions.

Open
Binding
Sessions: 1
Start: August 31, 2013, 9:30 AM
End: August 31, 2013, 5:30 PM
Juliayn Coleman

A popular bookbinding workshop. No longer a secret, the secret Belgian binding is an ideal structure for guest books, sketchbooks, and photo albums, as the pages lay flat when the book is open.

Open

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