Description
Hardback Chain Stitch Bookbinding
Tues 28 Jan
10am – 4pm
Join us for a skill packed day with Cassandra Baron, learning her special contemporary and sustainable take on the creative craft of Hardback Chain Stitch Bookbinding. Spend a day with our resident bookbinder, Cassandra Barron, and construct a durable hardback book with leather or pleather spine. Customise your book using your choice of coloured threads as Cass takes you step by step through the process of binding your book using decorative exposed chain stitch. Incorporate plain, patterned or textured fabric into your cover, explore different stitch variations and work decorative pages, envelopes and a page divider into your book for a very personal outcome that reflects your creative interests and inspirations. Check out our upcoming paper-based workshops in Cyanotype Photography and Gelli Plate Printing as perfect workshops to compliment your new bookbinding skills.
The aim is to leave the workshops with your finished book, but we will send follow up video instructions that you can refer to for a reminder of what is covered in class, and if you need a little time to finish at home. You will leave the workshop with a finished book as well as the skills and confidence to carry on bookbinding at home. After the workshop we will send on links to Cass’s video tutorials to help you on your binding journey. And if you’re hooked on books (you will be) Cass will have kits available to purchase for £12 at the end of the workshop.
About Your Tutor
“I have a background in Fine Art Sculpture, which is were I first discovered bookbinding – making my own sketchbooks out of whatever was to hand so I could get the sculptures I wanted to make out of my head, onto paper and into the world. Driven by a desire to help people explore their own creativity I went on to complete a Masters in Art Museum & Gallery Education, which led to me working as an Art Educator at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Artist in Residence at the Girvan Lantern Festival and taking on the role of Development Officer with Voluntary Arts Scotland, supporting community groups of all shapes and sizes to develop and deliver creative activities – all the while teaching myself bookbinding and running bookbinding workshops. In January 2019 I took the leap and went fully freelance and set up Bookbinding with Cass, which enabled me to put together a dynamic programme of creative classes and work in partnership with some fantastic community organisations, sharing my love of bookbinding with people from a range of backgrounds.”
- All materials for your Hardback Chain Stitch Bookbinding workshop are included in the course cost, but you are welcome to bring your own collection of papers and fabrics to incorporate into your design
- Tea and coffee are provided but participants should bring their own lunch and utensils
- All of our classes are suitable for over 16s, younger crafters may be accommodated if accompanied by a participating adult but please contact us before booking
- If the workshop you were looking at is fully booked drop us an email and we’ll add you to the waiting list. We will add extra dates to our most popular workshops too, join the mailing list to be the first to know
- All of our workshops are held at Craft Central, High Street, Dunblane, FK15 0EE
- If you need to cancel or reschedule your workshop we need at least three weeks notice. Please read our cancellation policy before booking
