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Bookbinding: A handy pocket notebook

  • The Portico Library 57 Mosley Street Manchester, England, M2 3HY United Kingdom (map)

Fully booked. Email to join the waiting list: events@theportico.org.uk or welcome@theportico.org.uk.

£85. Includes materials, tuition, tea & coffee on arrival and a sandwich lunch.

Book via events@theportico.org.uk or welcome@theportico.org.uk.

We will make a small hardback notebook, suitable for the pocket or handbag. First, we will make the flat-back sewn book block, with tipped-on plain endpapers. We’ll add a marker ribbon, endbands and spine linings. We will then make a cloth and decorative paper covered case (the covers) incorporating a French groove. Finally the book block and the covers are joined together - called ‘casing-in’. We will be using glue so a protective apron is recommended. 

Led by Barry Clark