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Course Detail: C_HARDCOVERJOURNAL - Hardcover Journal Workshop
Workshop Description:
Learn how to create your own books! The journal-making process includes bookbinding techniques such as accurate folding, hand sewing, measuring, and gluing. Pre-cut papers will be provided. Each student will make their own small hardcover book. A combination of book cloth and marbled paper is glued around a precut mat board body. The inner pages, using 100% cotton paper, are folded and stacked. Holes are sawn on the folds; the paper is assembled and sewn together with waxed thread. The binding is reinforced with glue and Japanese paper. After drying and weighing, the cover and pages are glued together. Students will go home with instructions for making and figuring their own hardcover books.
Bookbinding tools that students should bring to class:
An X-acto Knife or Breakaway Utility Knife
Ruler
Pencil
Bone folder
Book Awl
Small Scissors (optional)
Artist Bio: Cynthia McGuirl is a teaching artist living in Thomaston, Maine. She works with paper, fiber, and metal to create art books with her own prints and paintings. Recent solo exhibits include Family Tree at the Gibbs Library in Washington, ME and Old Maid at Hedgerow Gallery in Tenants Harbor, ME.
Learn how to create your own books! The journal-making process includes bookbinding techniques such as accurate folding, hand sewing, measuring, and gluing. Pre-cut papers will be provided. Each student will make their own small hardcover book. A combination of book cloth and marbled paper is glued around a precut mat board body. The inner pages, using 100% cotton paper, are folded and stacked. Holes are sawn on the folds; the paper is assembled and sewn together with waxed thread. The binding is reinforced with glue and Japanese paper. After drying and weighing, the cover and pages are glued together. Students will go home with instructions for making and figuring their own hardcover books.
Bookbinding tools that students should bring to class:
An X-acto Knife or Breakaway Utility Knife
Ruler
Pencil
Bone folder
Book Awl
Small Scissors (optional)
Artist Bio: Cynthia McGuirl is a teaching artist living in Thomaston, Maine. She works with paper, fiber, and metal to create art books with her own prints and paintings. Recent solo exhibits include Family Tree at the Gibbs Library in Washington, ME and Old Maid at Hedgerow Gallery in Tenants Harbor, ME.
