Event Info
This in-person workshop takes place at CBA on June 22 & 23, 2024 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm.
- Saturday, June 22, 11:00am – 5:00pm
- Sunday, June 23, 11:00am – 5:00pm
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on June 1, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This in-person workshop is taught by Devon Eastland.
Utilizing the techniques, tools, and materials available to binders during the hand press period (roughly Gutenberg through 1800), we will fold, sew, endband, back, and forward our own blank journals.
Bookbinders interested in expanding their understanding of bookbinding structures and techniques from the hand press period and binders interested in getting a chance to practice core techniques of hand binding will get a chance to do both while creating something modern using 17th century methods.
“As a bookbinder working now, I feel tied to the past because the materials and structures I employ are identical to those used hundreds of years ago. My familiarity with those structures, techniques, processes and materials makes me feel deeply connected to the binders that have come before me. At the same time, I live now, and I want to use materials that were not available in the 17th century to create books that could only be modern. And even in this, I know that my forebears would be obsessed with the paper and fabric possibilities that we have access to today. The plush journal is our chance to create an object straight out of the past that could only be from the right now.”
—Devon Eastland, Bookbinder and Teacher
*Prerequisite Experience: Bookbinding 1 & 2 or proficiency in sewing text blocks and hardcover bookbinding.
Required Materials:
All materials will be provided by Center for Book Arts.
About Devon Eastland
Devon started taking books apart and putting them back together in 1990. After college, she ran her own business selling books printed before 1700 for twenty years. During this period, she found books needing binding help and restored them for sale, along performing restoration services for outside clients. Coolest bookbinding moment in life: making books for films led to making all of the books for Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and appearing in the film as the bookbinder!
