XGRD5109 - Introduction to Book Binding

Course Description

There is something so beautiful about a handmade book. If you like to work with your hands, making a handmade book can be a satisfying and unparalleled experience. This hands-on course introduces the skills, craft, materials, process, and techniques used in making book structures. Learn binding methods involving paper folding, cutting, sewing, gluing and other means of assembling individual sheets, signatures and text blocks with or without covers. Course projects have the potential to evolve into creative and personal objects that hold visual work and text.

Prerequisite: None
 

Included in Course Price: $35 for courses held in a college lab
 

Optional Open Lab time is available for an additional $150, payable at check-out. Designated Open Lab hours are posted by each lab and shop.
 

Materials List: TBD