Making the text block and hard case

Creating a hard case cover

connecting text block to hard casing

making a kettle stitch to connect signatures

finished signature

Barbara Chalmers and Terry Dick

Sabina Bronners accordion book with inclusions

book binding materials

Jean Pratt

Sabina Bronner

Chava Gerber

Gayle Hatton & Marjorie Grace-Sayers making book cloth

Book binding...Making book cloth

Dick checks to see if book cloth is drying tight.

Students homemade book cloth

Dick Pio, master bookbinder, is demonstrating how to create a backing of kozo paper onto cotton fabric to make it suitable for book cloth. All the students made their own book cloth to use on their multi-signature hard case book.