Leather Bookbinding Workshop: Elevate Your Case Binding Skills - 15 June 2025
Join our next class on the 15 June 2025
Time: 10am - 2pm
Cost: $250 Full Fee
Wild Binders Refresher Practice from $130 ( full leather $160)
This advanced workshop focuses on leather paring techniques for spines and corners, providing essential leather-working skills while reinforcing key case-binding techniques. You’ll work with a new stitch design, practice sewing sections onto tapes, create endpapers, and apply marbled covers; all while refining your craftsmanship.
For those taking a refresher class, you can choose to make a half, quarter or full leather binding.
What You’ll Learn
Sewing Sections: Stitch sections onto tapes to construct a strong book block.
Rounding the Spine: Shape and strengthen your book block for a professional finish.
Leather Paring: Learn to pare leather for quarter-bound bookbinding.
Raised Bands: Add elegance with raised bands (for advanced participants).
Blind Tooling: Master the intricate art of "running up a spine" (for advanced participants).
Important Information
Your first session in this workshop is an introduction to working with leather, proficiency will require ongoing practice and additional sessions.
This is a highly technical workshop that requires prior case-binding experience. Ideally, participants will have attended at least one of our case-binding classes.
Participants must be comfortable following verbal and visual instructions. If you’re unsure about your suitability, contact us at hello@owlandlion.com.
All materials and tools.
Refreshments: tea, coffee, and biscuits.
Please read our Terms and Conditions before booking. Refunds are not available for changes of mind.
Written and delivered by Isabelle McGowan, © 2007 Isabelle McGowan. All rights reserved.
Join our next class on the 15 June 2025
Time: 10am - 2pm
Cost: $250 Full Fee
Wild Binders Refresher Practice from $130 ( full leather $160)
This advanced workshop focuses on leather paring techniques for spines and corners, providing essential leather-working skills while reinforcing key case-binding techniques. You’ll work with a new stitch design, practice sewing sections onto tapes, create endpapers, and apply marbled covers; all while refining your craftsmanship.
For those taking a refresher class, you can choose to make a half, quarter or full leather binding.
What You’ll Learn
Sewing Sections: Stitch sections onto tapes to construct a strong book block.
Rounding the Spine: Shape and strengthen your book block for a professional finish.
Leather Paring: Learn to pare leather for quarter-bound bookbinding.
Raised Bands: Add elegance with raised bands (for advanced participants).
Blind Tooling: Master the intricate art of "running up a spine" (for advanced participants).
Important Information
Your first session in this workshop is an introduction to working with leather, proficiency will require ongoing practice and additional sessions.
This is a highly technical workshop that requires prior case-binding experience. Ideally, participants will have attended at least one of our case-binding classes.
Participants must be comfortable following verbal and visual instructions. If you’re unsure about your suitability, contact us at hello@owlandlion.com.
All materials and tools.
Refreshments: tea, coffee, and biscuits.
Please read our Terms and Conditions before booking. Refunds are not available for changes of mind.
Written and delivered by Isabelle McGowan, © 2007 Isabelle McGowan. All rights reserved.
Join our next class on the 15 June 2025
Time: 10am - 2pm
Cost: $250 Full Fee
Wild Binders Refresher Practice from $130 ( full leather $160)
This advanced workshop focuses on leather paring techniques for spines and corners, providing essential leather-working skills while reinforcing key case-binding techniques. You’ll work with a new stitch design, practice sewing sections onto tapes, create endpapers, and apply marbled covers; all while refining your craftsmanship.
For those taking a refresher class, you can choose to make a half, quarter or full leather binding.
What You’ll Learn
Sewing Sections: Stitch sections onto tapes to construct a strong book block.
Rounding the Spine: Shape and strengthen your book block for a professional finish.
Leather Paring: Learn to pare leather for quarter-bound bookbinding.
Raised Bands: Add elegance with raised bands (for advanced participants).
Blind Tooling: Master the intricate art of "running up a spine" (for advanced participants).
Important Information
Your first session in this workshop is an introduction to working with leather, proficiency will require ongoing practice and additional sessions.
This is a highly technical workshop that requires prior case-binding experience. Ideally, participants will have attended at least one of our case-binding classes.
Participants must be comfortable following verbal and visual instructions. If you’re unsure about your suitability, contact us at hello@owlandlion.com.
All materials and tools.
Refreshments: tea, coffee, and biscuits.
Please read our Terms and Conditions before booking. Refunds are not available for changes of mind.
Written and delivered by Isabelle McGowan, © 2007 Isabelle McGowan. All rights reserved.
