Binding your own books is a fun, challenging, and addictive adventure. Once you start to add fabric into the mix it gets even better.
Join artist e bond in this intimate class setting to learn & practice basic bookbinding skills while making actual books. In this workshop, students will learn how to sew a handmade book from start to finish using your stash of quilt blocks or any kind of fabric as book covers.
Price: $180
Please note that the workshop fee does not include materials. A $15 materials fee per participant will be paid directly to the instructor the day of the workshop to cover paper, glue, book board, Heat n’ Bond, linen thread, two pieces of fabric and sewing materials you’ll need to make the book plus a small kit of tools you can take with you.
About your instructor
e bond is a designer + artist + writer + bookbinder & educator. Currently, she works in design spaces by
day, makes handmade books by night, hangs out with trees on weekends and writes something close to
poems in the spaces between. Under the studio name roughdrAftbooks, she makes one-of-a-kind artists
books, printed pieces and abstract drawings that merge and blur the boundaries of art, craft, surface design
and poetry. e holds a BFA in graphic design and art history from Moore College of Art & Design and an MFA
in Creative Writing and Book Art from Mills College. Her work is held in library collections across the US and
has been published in Uppercase Magazine, Berkeley Poetry Review, 500 Handmade Books, as well as
numerous books (about books). Most recently, e’s work has moved into the wonderful world of surface
design where she has designed many colorful, abstract fabric collections in collaboration with Free Spirit
Fabrics. You can learn more at ebondwork.com or on Instagram @eisroughdraft.