Date & Time: October 15, 2006 (Sunday), 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Nucleus
Instructor: Patrick Williams
Materials to bring: Listed below
Cost: ($50 if you bring your own materials) ($75 with materials included)

To Register: click here or call 626-458-7482

Ever wondered how books are made? Ever wanted to make your own for whatever reason? All it takes is a bit of know how. Once the trade of highly skilled master craftsmen, the hand made book has virtually and been replaced by mass production. But you don’t need to be a master craftsman to make your own books, with a few basic supplies and a few little tricks you can make whatever you like. We’ll talk over the basics of perfect binding, sewing signatures/pamphlets, Japanese stab-stitch (and variations) and creating hard bound covers. Lean what you will need to know in order to make your own personalized portfolio, sketchbooks, notepads, gifts and more!

Bio:

P. Williams is a self professed sketchbook addict and collector. After filling up about 100 of them, he embarked on a quest to figure out how to make his own, which eventually let to his teaching others what he had learned. He is a graduate of Art Center College of Design, in Illustration, and has taught at the Orange County High School of the Arts(CA), Bellevue Children’s academy(WA), and Daniel Smith(WA) and also helped start up the SCBA (Seattle Center for Book Arts) He is a very prolific painter exhibiting work all over the country. Expect to see his work in several books due out in the next few months. He currently has 190 sketchbooks in his collection.

Material:
1 ream 8.5x11” photocopy paper (or better stock)
Binder’s thread (or embroidery thread)
Needles
Davey board/chip board (16x20”-ish)
X-acto /utility knife and extra blades
PVA glue (Elmer’s is ok too)
Cutting mat/extra chip board
Book cover cloth, ( or a fabric you’d like, to involve in the construction of a book)
Metal Ruler

Recommended:
Bone folder
Super (looks like a linen mesh)
A sheet or two of decorative paper