ONLINE Handmade Books: Buttonhole Books - Wed 1st November 2023 at 10am
SKU:
JMA0111aa12
£40.00
£40.00
per item
BOOKING DEADLINE: Wed 18th October at 12pm UK TIME
If you wish to take part but are unable to attend the workshop demo live, please select the recording only option below.
All students will be given access to watch our video playback service for 60 days.
4 available
Tutor: Janina Maher
Wed 1st November 10am - 11:45am
(UK timings)
This LivePlus™ online workshop is suitable for students of all levels. You needn't have the materials ready whilst watching this online demonstration – it is a time to watch, ask and learn.
Workshop details
In this workshop Janina will show you all the steps involved in making a buttonhole book with a cutaway spine.
The demonstration for this workshop will be a hard back landscape A6 book, with a decorative paper cover, book cloth spine detailing, cutaway spine, and buttonhole stitching.
Janina will start by trimming card into the correct size for the book and will show how to make the cut away element. The front and back covers will be covered with a decorative paper, and the spine and hinge areas reinforced with bookcloth. The cover will then be placed under weight to dry flat. She will then demonstrate how to trim the inside pages to fit, nesting the folded pages into ‘signatures’.
The final stage will be to sew the pages into the book cover using a long buttonhole stitch and linen thread. All the stages will be fully demonstrated with lots of extra hints and tips along the way. Once the book is finished Janina will show several variations of this style of book to give you some ideas how to take this book further.
This is a workshop where you can sit back and watch the demonstrations, and make your book in your own time after the workshop. You are encouraged to ask any questions either during the live session, or through the class blackboard once you have started work on your own project.
Specific skills you will learn at the workshop
Equipment & materials list
Materials are not included in the course fee. All the materials and equipment you will need are listed below.
Essential tools
Optional tools if you have them, and which make your life easier!
Materials
Links to suppliers
Janina is selling materials packs on her website which include greyboard, 140gsm cartridge paper, linen thread, decorative paper and bookcloth. These packs do not include tools, PVA or scrap paper. These packs are £7 plus P&P. To purchase your kit, click here.
Seawhites- https://www.artesaver.co.uk/
Jacksons - https://www.jacksonsart.com/
Hobbycraft - https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/
Additional Information
All Ardington ONLINE classes and talks are accompanied by their own online blackboard. Helpful and easy to use, they enable students and tutors to share resources, ideas and photos with each other – just as you would in a classroom environment.
Janina will offer personalised critique / feedback via the blackboard for any work uploaded by students within thirty days of the class ending. You will be sent the link to access your blackboard in the week before your class begins and will have access for at least sixty days after the class ends.
After the live session has finished on Zoom, we will share the link to view the recording on the blackboard. You can watch the recording as many times as you like for sixty days.
We suggest that you do not buy any specialist materials more than one week in advance as, occasionally, a class may be cancelled due to low enrolment.
Wed 1st November 10am - 11:45am
(UK timings)
This LivePlus™ online workshop is suitable for students of all levels. You needn't have the materials ready whilst watching this online demonstration – it is a time to watch, ask and learn.
Workshop details
In this workshop Janina will show you all the steps involved in making a buttonhole book with a cutaway spine.
The demonstration for this workshop will be a hard back landscape A6 book, with a decorative paper cover, book cloth spine detailing, cutaway spine, and buttonhole stitching.
Janina will start by trimming card into the correct size for the book and will show how to make the cut away element. The front and back covers will be covered with a decorative paper, and the spine and hinge areas reinforced with bookcloth. The cover will then be placed under weight to dry flat. She will then demonstrate how to trim the inside pages to fit, nesting the folded pages into ‘signatures’.
The final stage will be to sew the pages into the book cover using a long buttonhole stitch and linen thread. All the stages will be fully demonstrated with lots of extra hints and tips along the way. Once the book is finished Janina will show several variations of this style of book to give you some ideas how to take this book further.
This is a workshop where you can sit back and watch the demonstrations, and make your book in your own time after the workshop. You are encouraged to ask any questions either during the live session, or through the class blackboard once you have started work on your own project.
Specific skills you will learn at the workshop
- Measuring and cutting grey board covers
- Making the cutaway area of the spine
- Covering the book covers with paper and bookcloth
- Folding and trimming paper for the inside pages (‘signatures’)
- Sewing the book together using Buttonhole stitch
- Tips for painless measuring, cutting and gluing
- Advice on suitable card, papers
- Importance of paper grain
Equipment & materials list
Materials are not included in the course fee. All the materials and equipment you will need are listed below.
Essential tools
- Cutting mat, sharp cutting knife or craft knife (not a scalpel, as this is too delicate to cut greyboard), metal ruler, scissors
- Sharp pencil, rubber eraser
- Blunt ended sewing needle with large eye (eg tapestry needle size 20)
- Awl or braddle (for making holes in paper and card)
- For gluing preferably a small 2” dense foam roller & tray. If not, then a wide blunt ended brush eg stencil brush.
- Heavy books or boards for pressing your covers.
Optional tools if you have them, and which make your life easier!
- Bone folder (for creasing paper)
- T square ruler (for getting accurate 90 degree corners)
- Paper knife / clip knife / shoe knife (for trimming paper)
Materials
- Greyboard – Janina uses 2mm greyboard from Seawhite. You could also use the back of a sketchpad
- Paper for inside pages – Janina uses 140gsm cartridge from Seawhite size A4.
- Linen thread – approx. 10 feet. Janina uses 16/3 or 18/3 thread from Hewit.
- Decorative paper for the covers – Depending on the pattern you will need at least A3 size. The softer printed Indian papers work well.
- Piece of bookcloth to cover the spine – you will need approx. 25cm by 15cm. Janina gets hers from Hewit.
- Waxed paper for protecting the book covers while drying – the waxed paper from inside boxes of breakfast cereal works very well
- PVA – use good quality (not too runny) – Seawhite PVA works well
- Scrap paper for gluing
Links to suppliers
Janina is selling materials packs on her website which include greyboard, 140gsm cartridge paper, linen thread, decorative paper and bookcloth. These packs do not include tools, PVA or scrap paper. These packs are £7 plus P&P. To purchase your kit, click here.
Seawhites- https://www.artesaver.co.uk/
Jacksons - https://www.jacksonsart.com/
Hobbycraft - https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/
Additional Information
All Ardington ONLINE classes and talks are accompanied by their own online blackboard. Helpful and easy to use, they enable students and tutors to share resources, ideas and photos with each other – just as you would in a classroom environment.
Janina will offer personalised critique / feedback via the blackboard for any work uploaded by students within thirty days of the class ending. You will be sent the link to access your blackboard in the week before your class begins and will have access for at least sixty days after the class ends.
After the live session has finished on Zoom, we will share the link to view the recording on the blackboard. You can watch the recording as many times as you like for sixty days.
We suggest that you do not buy any specialist materials more than one week in advance as, occasionally, a class may be cancelled due to low enrolment.