Fundamentals Bookbinding II

Day(s): Monday, April 13 to Friday, April 17 (meets 5 times)

Times: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Price: $725

Tools and supplies: Please bring a notebook and pencil. All other tools and supplies are provided for the class. 

Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Bookbinding I or equivalent experience. 

Instructor: Erin Fletcher BB ’12

This course will focus on hardcover structures. Students will continue with rounded back case bindings and end the course with on-set board binding. Throughout the course students will fine-tune their skills through repetition and develop a focus to details such as, endpapers structures and headband variations. Topics of discussion will include an overview of bindery equipment such as stamping on the Kwikprint and trimming with the plough.