Book & Paper Arts Workshops
Zhen Xian Bao or Chinese Thread Book (Pewsey, Wiltshire, UK)
This workshop is back by popular demand. Participants spend the first day making a model to learn the folding techniques and exploring different ways to arrange the compartments of the booklet. The ‘real thing’ is then fashioned with hand-made paper and decorated with paper onlays or simple stamped motifs. Time allowing, we will attach a fabric cover. The result will be in keeping with the methods used to fashion zhen xian bao in the remote areas of southeast China.
Suitable for beginners.
Location/Venue: Lori Sauer Bindery
For more info & pictures: https://tinyurl.com/y93slmdb
Cost/Fee: £160 (approx. US$210 as Sep 24, 2018)
Material/Studio fee: Included?
To sign up: https://tinyurl.com/yanzdzbe
Their workshop calendar: https://tinyurl.com/y85qt5r7
Instructor: 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 and private collections in North America, Africa, Europe, and the UK. She is the founder of BINDING re:DEFINED.
Posts which show you how to make one: https://tinyurl.com/yaugnffu