Book Making a 4 week course in creating a Leather journal

This course will guide participants through the process of making a Leather journal with a choice of archival drawing a writing papers.

Week One 7/23: We will start by designing and creating our journal cover out of top grain leather

Week Two 7/30: We will cut, tear, size and fold our papers

Week Three 8/6: We will sewn in our pages

Week Four 8/13: Will be for detailing and other finishing.

Book making has a long history of design an function. Book a way of keeping our ideas, drawing, musing and inspiration in one place. Journaling in all its forms can be therapeutic and help to work out ideas. Books are an extension of our mind and a place to put drawings, writing, imagines, and more.

Each week we meet, participants will learn the methods for creating a Leather cover, folding, prepping their papers, sewing and binding pages and customizing their covers to express their unique personality. These books will be made to last a lifetime.

The journal size you will make in this course is approximately 5"x7"x2", 260 pages

This is being taught at the LittletonStudio School. Follow this link for registration: https://www.littletonstudioschool.org