In centuries past, books were sometimes sewn onto cords and then laced into soft covers before being bound. In this class students will bind a book employing thick paper as a folded and laced wrapper.

Build your letterpress skills: learn advanced justification, typesetting, and composition. Put it all together to print a broadside of your own design.

Learn to print from photopolymer plates in this final Core course; walk away with a stack of stationery featuring digital artwork printed from polymer plates.

This book structure is a dynamic concertina that will wow the viewer. Combining the concertina with ribbons and pamphlets allows for an expanding and collapsing book unlike no other.

Increase your letterpress versatility: learn to set up the press, refine your registration skills, and run an edition of your own small poster!

This intensive class is for those with some leather experience who would like to learn the fundamentals of this area of book restoration. Whether it’s an eighteenth century calfskin binding, or a massive Victorian Family Bible, this class will teach you how to restore them beautifully.

Learn a faster way to make a full leather binding.

This is Michael and Dominic’s most popular class, excellent for beginning bookbinders.

The Glazier Codex is one of the most unusual and fascinating of the ancient book structures. With its bone clasps, leather thongs, leather bands over wooden boards and a pattern of shapes which could relate to a dragon, this book is an exciting addition to your historical repertoire.

Students with linocut experience will take things to the next level with multiple blocks and colors.

This hybrid online/in person workshop will teach experienced letterpress printers to prepare digital files and print 4-color process images with tight registration.

Alchemy is more than just turning lead into gold. Trace the history of the process, learn about its applications and identify ways that you can use alchemical influences in your own art.

Is your pasta machine taking up too much space in the kitchen? Move it to your studio instead and learn how to use it for printing small dry-point prints.

If you’ve ever been curious about how to make a book, Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. One workshop, five booklets!

Build your letterpress skills: learn advanced justification, typesetting, and composition. Put it all together to print a broadside of your own design.

This class introduces the process, the materials, the machines, and the satisfaction of printing by hand on a Cylinder proof press.

This class introduces the process, the materials, the machines, and the satisfaction of printing by hand on a Cylinder proof press.

Learn how to properly maintain a hand-fed Cylinder Proof Press, as well as how to adjust it so that it prints beautifully.

Now that you've completed the Cylinder Core series, you can become certified on the Jobbing Platen, a true workhorse of the letterpress printing world. Learn the ins-and-outs of this press that's great for large editions.

Use a blender to process recycled pulp and make your own sheets of paper!

Our Bookbinding Core Certificate Program introduces students to four different binding models, leading them through the history and evolution of bookmaking.

Create sophisticated little pamphlets with interesting stitches based on the work of Keith Smith. Two stitching patterns will be taught with a single and a double-section pamphlet.

This extension of our popular Introduction to Western Marbling workshop will help students take their marbling skills to the next level as they learn to marble on fabric that can be used for covering books and boxes.

During this comprehensive marbling class, students will gain an overview of western marbling techniques creating works on paper and textiles with an eye to patterns and color theory.

This workshop is for artists and/or writers who want to expand their visual and literary practices by exploring text in the book format.

In this introductory workshop, we will explore the many possibilities of paper mulberry, a strong fiber that is used primarily in East Asian papermaking.

Discover how to create trace monotypes, a form of printing without a press, and then use the resulting prints to design a one of a kind pop-up accordion book.

You’ve made your memories, now make a book where you can house them. This screw-post album is a fun and flexible book structure ideal for photographs and scrapbooking. No previous experience necessary!

Our Bookbinding Core Certificate Program introduces students to four different binding models, leading them through the history and evolution of bookmaking.

This course will introduce the student familiar with bookbinding to key practices within basic book repair.

Learn to make multi-part stencils for illustration and design.

Join us for a monthly community drawing meetup with new exercises each session.