Noncredit Workshop
Creative Bookbinding: an Introduction
Event ID: P09611
Info: May 24-Jun 28 • Sat • 9:00am-12:00pm • 6 mtgs • UHM Art 364 • $135, plus $25 materials fee, payable at first class • Check online or call 956-8244 for basic supply list
With: Gail Hercher
Making books by hand is a satisfying craft that is at once creative and calming. Whether you are interested in making books as art, blank journals, books for poetry and drawings, this workshop teaches the process. In each session you learn a different book format, including: the multi-section fold-out pamphlet, portfolio, accordion and star, long stitch, small hardcover book, and photo album with bookcloth.
Instructor brings tools and some supplies, and also provides a bibliography and list of resources for tools and materials.
Please bring to class:
Course Outline
1. Single and multi-section pamphlet book format
(Make a journal.)
2. Portfolio
(Make a portfolio to store papers for class.)
3. Accordion and star book format
(Tell a narrative story.)
4. Long stitch binding
(Make a sketchbook that opens flat.)
5. Small hardcover book
(Use as a notebook.)
6. Photo album with metal posts and Dutch bookcloth
Open to all levels; no special skills required, just the desire to make beautiful objects. Make books for personal use, to give as gifts, or to teach your own students how to make books they can write in. Contact instructor at PaperGail@aol.com if you have questions.
Gail Pike Hercher is a historian, artist, art teacher, and author of Crafting With Handmade Paper (2001). Before moving to Hawai‘i, Gail was Director of Education at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and a Designated Creative Teaching Partner of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.