Course code: 25SBB205I
This in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Thursdays, October 30th - November 13th, from 6PM to 9PM ET.
- Thursday, October 30th, 6PM to 9PM ET
- Thursday, November 6th, 6PM to 9PM ET
- Thursday, November 13th, 6PM to 9PM ET
Please note that registration for this workshop will close at 11:59pm on October 16th.
About this Workshop
Students are encouraged to come to this workshop with projects and project ambitions of their own. We will go over a number of hand binding skills useful for creating new books from vintage and salvaged materials. The choice is yours, whether you’re interested in repairing books, repurposing their parts, or the custom fabrication of new books using salvaged supplies, my goal is to get you started.
Students are encouraged to come with books that are not precious. We will be initiating new skills and the results may be messy. Please bring expendable books to use mainly for learning, not irreplaceable heirlooms or works of art.
Required Materials
Possible projects for participants include: repairing a clothbound book with detached boards; converting a paperback book to hardcover; re-using vintage book boards to make a new blank journal; repurposing a pre-made new or vintage bound blank journal, fitting out the textblock with repurposed or new boards; and hand sewing a blank journal from new old stock paper. Participants are encouraged to bring their own materials, however, new and vintage materials will also be provided. Please reach out with specific questions regarding materials.
About the Instructor
Devon Eastland started taking books apart and putting them back together in 1990. After college, she ran her own business selling books printed before 1700 for twenty years. During this period, she found books needing binding help and restored them for sale, along performing restoration services for outside clients. Coolest bookbinding moment in life: making books for films led to making all of the books for Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and appearing in the film as the bookbinder!
All images courtesy of the instructor.