Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Making the text block and hard case




Creating a hard case cover





connecting text block to hard casing



making a kettle stitch to connect signatures



finished signature
Barbara Chalmers and Terry Dick
Sabina Bronners accordion book with inclusions

book binding materials


Jean Pratt

Sabina Bronner
Chava Gerber


Gayle Hatton & Marjorie Grace-Sayers making book cloth

Book binding...Making book cloth

Dick checks to see if book cloth is drying tight.

Students homemade book cloth

Dick Pio, master bookbinder, is demonstrating how to create a backing of kozo paper onto cotton fabric to make it suitable for book cloth. All the students made their own book cloth to use on their multi-signature hard case book.