Book & Paper Arts Workshops
The Perfect Album by Lori Sauer (Ir-Rabat, Malta)
The class focuses on up-to-date methods used to make albums. Participants learn how to create an album that is robust, opens flat and is a beautiful object in itself. The importance and suitability of materials is discussed. Students will leave with at least two albums as well a wealth of related information that is used across all of bookbinding.
Venue: Studio Solipsis
Price includes materials and lunch
Original website page: https://tinyurl.com/y9p3xqxw
Lori Sauer was born and educated in the USA and has degrees in Fine Art and English literature. After moving to the UK she worked for a number of years in publishing before studying bookbinding at The City Lit in London. She has won various awards for her work over the years including the Silver Medal in the Bookbinding Competition. Now a Fellow and President of Designer Bookbinders, she specialises in contemporary fine binding and continues to do high profile commissions for private presses and bindings for the Man Booker Prize. For the last decade Lori has turned her attention to the development of alternative binding structures and passes on her knowledge of them through teaching. Her work is held in public collections in North America, Africa, Europe, and the UK. She is the founder of BINDING re:DEFINED.