WorkshopsBookbinding3-Signature Pamphlet, >x< Binding

3-Signature Pamphlet, >x< Binding

Event Info

This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on April 17, 2024 from 6:00 to 8:30 pm.

Wednesday, April 17, 6:00 – 8:30pm

Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on April 10th, at 11:59 pm.

About the Workshop:

This in-person workshop is taught by CBA instructor Susan Joy Share.

This 3-Signature Book workshop introduces participants to a versatile binding technique developed by Hedi Kyle. The book opens flat and is perfect for writing, drawing, and collage.

Participants will create a journal or sketchbook with three hefty signatures sewn through the spine of a stiff card-weight paper cover. We’ll make a sewing card to learn the unique stitching, then reduce and transfer the pattern to the book cover. Templates will allow us to match the signature papers to your spine design, then all three signatures are interlaced and sewn at the same time. No previous bookbinding experience required!

Fun Fact: Both Hedi Kyle and Susan Joy Share were highly involved with CBA in its early days (1970s) and frequently exhibited their work.

Required Materials:

Materials
- Text paper
- Card weight paper
Tools
- Pencil & Eraser
- Bone Folder
- Scissors
- X-acto knife and cutting mat
- Metal ruler or triangle
- Punching awl
- Hole punch
- Yarn lace or large needle with yarn or heavy thread
- Needle and thread

More detailed materials lists will be provided in the email sent upon registration

About Susan Joy Share

Susan Joy Share’s artwork combines sculpture, painting, bookbinding, sewing and collage. Her abstract architectural forms, figures and pop-ups are colorful and kinetic. Susan worked in book conservation at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and has taught at the Center for Book Arts, NYC; Penland School of Crafts, NC; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO; and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ME. Her work is in collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Brooklyn Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Jaffe Center and Anchorage Museum. She currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

All images courtesy of the instructor.

In order to best serve our community near and far, many of our online classes are pay-what-you-can. The amount you choose to pay goes directly toward our instructors and toward creating scholarship opportunities for the future. Virtual workshops at Center for Book Arts will be recorded and the recording will be viewable for up to 30 days after the class.