Categorie: Workshops English

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

Two days to play with all kind of known and unknown forms of making leporello’s and One Sheet Books. You will learn how to fold in a proper way and you learn to process this into a book. We make different models with less known constructions and possibilities and we

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

New in our programm: The fantastic Wire edge binding, developped by Daniel Kelm (USA).Daniel Kelm has taught his invention extensively in the last 35+ years and developped it further. The Wire edge binding is a sophisticated method for creating and hinging together stiff panel pages, using metal wire and thread. Hinges

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