Bookbinding Core Skills: 2025 Summer Session

Book Binding Core Workshops I-IV (Summer 2025 Session)
w/Jane Freeman & Yolanda Merrill
Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, July 17– 20, 2025

This four-part Bookbinding Core Series prepares participants to undertake various projects and additional classes in intermediate and advanced bookbinding techniques and structures.

• Class 1 introduces essential bookbinding tools, shop equipment, materials, and processes.
• Class 2 employs the portfolio structure to develop skills in board cutting, working with cover materials, and using adhesives.
• Class 3 starts with introducing the case-bound book, its history, and its mechanics.
  Participants will learn how to sequence the making of this structure and will end the day with a fully finished case-bound book.
• Class 4 is a continuation of class 3.
  Participants will make a second case-bound book. They can decide on this book's size and cover material and can experiment with decorative paper brought from home.

• Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, July17-20, 2025 (10:00 AM to 4:00 PM daily)
• Instructors: Jane Freeman & Yolanda Merrill
• Class Size: Max 8 students.
• Skill level: No previous bookbinding experience required.
• Location: Virginia Center for the Book (map: Jefferson School City Center)
• Fee: $410 VCB Members / $460 Non-Members
• Class may be , non-degree certification class #071725 (must use non-member price)
• Course fees must be paid to complete your registration.
• Registration closes on July 11, 2025
• All materials are provided, along with tools available for in-class use.
• For information about this workshop, the Center, and its programs, contact Z3NxdWVlbiB8IHZpcmdpbmlhICEgZWR1

• The Virginia Center for the Book expects that all program participants are vaccinated.
• Should public health guidelines change and new norms be applicable, we reserve the right to revisit the expectations in the interest of participant health and safety.

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