Categorie: Workshops English

A block book is a very good structure to collect pages who are printed on one side and a beautiful way to present the content. This construction is without sewing. You will make two variations of a blockbook. The first book will have a open spine of cloth and paper

The Meanderbinding is a very nice glueless structure with an refined exposed sewing. The originale structure is having loose threads on the spine of the cover which is a vunerable point. In this Meander Binding Revisited structure these threads are hidden in a clever way. This revisted and updated structure

The Dos rapporté is a fantastic and refined structure, developed by Benjamin Elbel. It was developped before the Tue mouche. They look a bit the same from the outside but the structure is completely different. In this structure the spine is made separate and will be attached to the bookcover

The Tue-mouche structure by Benjamin Elbel, a flexible variation of the Dos Rapporté binding. The Tue-mouche binding uses only paper, thread and a little glue and yet offers all the features of a ‘proper’ binding- protection, accessibility, durability. A nifty construction, but also an elegant one with its yap edges

The Pleated Hinge is a glueless structure which is sewn on vellum tapes. Prefectly fit as a conservation binding but also appropriate for all books where you don’t want or can’t use glue. In this workshop we will make two books: one with a flexible paper cover and one with

Discover the secrets of ‘The Shrigley’, an elegant and non-intrusive method for storing and presenting documents based on a clever folding technique. Following on The Shrigley we planned The Elbum, a complete different approach but with the same possibility as the Shrigley to change the content in a very clever

This workshop will learn you the trics & tips of making the Elbum, an inventive album structure which holds its pages by gripping them into a series of narrow pockets. The Elbum is one of the ‘Bookbinding out of the box’ structures developed by Benjamin Elbel. This bookstructure gives you