Upcoming bookbinding workshops.
Secret Belgian binding
Make a hardcover A5-sized journal with paper-wrapped covers, hand-stitched with a distinctively linear thread pattern across the spine. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Cross-structure leather journals
Learn how to make a classic A6-sized journal with soft leather covers, coloured thread, and filled with your choice of assorted papers. Click image for more info…
Criss-cross fancy stitched A5 leather journals
Make the perfect A5-sized sketchbook or journal with buttery soft-leather covers and a mix of papers, all hand-sewn using a fancy decorative criss-cross Longstitch binding. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Wrap-around leather journals (with closure)
Learn how to make your very own wrap-around soft-leather journal, hand-sewn in coloured thread using various Longstitch binding techniques, featuring a variety of papers inside, and finished with a magnetic clasp or leather-strap closure. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Multi-needle Coptic binding (A5-sized)
Discover the traditional craft of Coptic bookbinding by making an A5-sized Coptic-bound book, with either classic hard-covers (fancy paper wrapped), or a soft-leather front cover, and featuring distinctive chain-stitching sewn across an exposed spine. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Hardcover Longstitch journals (leather spine + hard covers)
Learn how to make a useful and practical journal with a soft-leather spine and two hardboard covers, hand-stitched using coloured thread and a beautiful Longstitch binding technique.
Japanese stab-bound books
Learn a variety of Japanese stab bindings, by making four different notebooks using the most widely recognised Oriental bindings: Traditional 4-hole; Noble; Tortoiseshell; and Hemp-leaf stitching patterns. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Travellers’ Notebooks (and sketchbooks)
Create your own version of this modern classic, a leather A5-sized notebook holder with a coloured elastic strap closure, filled with 3 handmade notebook/sketchbook inserts that are infinitely adaptable and customisable. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Sydney workshop: Leather journals (cross-structure binding)
Learn how to make a classic soft-cover leatherbound journal, with your choice of papers inside, hand-sewn with coloured thread, and using a traditional technique known as cross-structure binding. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Sydney workshop: Secret Belgian binding
Make a hardcover A5-sized journal with paper-wrapped covers, hand-stitched with a distinctively linear thread pattern across the spine. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Leather journals (cross-structure)
Learn how to make a classic A6-sized journal with soft leather covers, coloured thread, and filled with your choice of assorted papers. Click image for more info…
Past event: Secret Belgian binding
Make a hardcover A5-sized journal with paper-wrapped covers, hand-stitched with a distinctively linear thread pattern across the spine. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Criss-cross fancy stitched A5 journals
Make the perfect A5-sized sketchbook or journal with buttery soft-leather covers and a mix of papers, all hand-sewn using a decorative criss-cross Longstitch binding. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Wrap-around leather journals (with closure)
Learn how to make your very own wrap-around soft-leather journal, hand-sewn in coloured thread using various Longstitch binding techniques, featuring a variety of papers inside, and finished with a magnetic closure. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Multi-needle Coptic binding (A5-sized)
Discover the traditional craft of Coptic bookbinding by making an A5-sized Coptic-bound book, with either classic hard-covers (fancy paper wrapped), or a soft-leather front cover, and featuring distinctive chain-stitching sewn across an exposed spine. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Hardcover Longstitch journals (leather spine + hard covers)
Learn how to make a useful and practical journal with a soft-leather spine and two hardboard covers, hand-stitched using coloured thread and a beautiful Longstitch binding technique.
Past event: Japanese stab-bound books
Learn a variety of Japanese stab bindings, by making four different notebooks using the most widely recognised Oriental bindings: Traditional 4-hole; Noble; Tortoiseshell; and Hemp-leaf stitching patterns. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Travellers’ notebooks (and sketchbooks)
Create your own version of this modern classic, a leather A5-sized notebook holder with a coloured elastic strap closure, filled with 3 handmade notebook/sketchbook inserts that are infinitely adaptable and customisable. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Leather journals (cross-structure)
Learn how to make a classic A6-sized journal with soft leather covers, coloured thread, and filled with your choice of assorted papers. Click image for more info…
Past event: Secret Belgian binding
Make a hardcover A5-sized journal with paper-wrapped covers, hand-stitched with a distinctively linear thread pattern across the spine. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Criss-cross stitched A5 journals
Make the perfect A5-sized sketchbook or journal with buttery soft-leather covers and a mix of papers, all hand-sewn using a decorative criss-cross Longstitch binding. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Wrap-around leather journals (with closure)
Learn how to make your very own wrap-around soft-leather journal, hand-sewn in coloured thread using various Longstitch binding techniques, featuring a variety of papers inside, and finished with a magnetic closure. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Coptic binding (A5-sized)
Discover the traditional craft of Coptic bookbinding by making an A5-sized Coptic-bound book, with either classic hard-covers (fancy paper wrapped), or a soft-leather front cover, and featuring distinctive chain-stitching sewn across an exposed spine. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Hardcover longstitch journals (leather spine + hard covers)
Learn how to make a useful and practical journal with a soft-leather spine and two hardboard covers, hand-stitched using coloured thread and a beautiful Longstitch binding technique.
Past event: Japanese stab-bound books
Learn a variety of Japanese stab bindings, by making four different notebooks using the most widely recognised Oriental bindings: Traditional 4-hole; Noble; Tortoiseshell; and Hemp-leaf stitching patterns. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Travellers’ notebooks/sketchbooks
Create your own version of this modern classic, a leather A5-sized notebook holder with a coloured elastic strap closure, filled with 3 handmade notebook/sketchbook inserts that are infinitely adaptable and customisable. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Leather Journals (cross-structure binding)
Learn how to make a classic leatherbound journal, with your choice of papers inside, hand-sewn with coloured thread, and using a traditional technique known as Cross-structure binding. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Secret Belgian Binding
Try your hand at making a hardcover journal with Secret Belgian Binding, featuring fancy paper-wrapped covers and hand-stitched with a distinctively linear coloured thread pattern across the spine. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Criss-cross A5 Journals
Make the perfect A5-sized sketchbook or journal with buttery soft-leather covers and a mix of papers, all hand-sewn using a decorative criss-cross Longstitch binding. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Wrap-around leather journals (with magnetic closure)
Learn how to make your very own wrap-around soft-leather journal, hand-sewn in coloured thread using various Longstitch binding techniques, featuring a variety of papers inside, and finished with a magnetic closure. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.
Past event: Coptic bookbinding (A5)
Discover the traditional craft of Coptic bookbinding by making an A5-sized Coptic-bound book, with either classic hard-covers (fancy paper wrapped), or a soft-leather front cover, and featuring distinctive chain-stitching sewn across an exposed spine. Click image for more info on the workshop, and how to make a booking.