Leather Core :: Leather Pocket Book

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April 18th, 2020 9:30 AM

  • Instructor: Juliayn Coleman
  • Workshop Type: Binding
  • Workshop Status: Wait-list
  • Workshop Start: April 18th, 2020 9:30 AM
  • Workshop End: April 19th, 2020 5:30 PM
  • Sessions: 2

This course is an introduction to books made with leather. Over two days, we will make a simple, refined book with a full leather cover. This will allow students to use skills gained in the Orientation to Leather class in a binding project with beautiful and admirable results. The Leather Pocket Book is based on the style of binding known as limp leather because of its flexible covers. This style was used for devotional texts, field notes, and other types of companion books one might carry along everywhere. To decorate the covers, we will blind tool them using geometric patterns. If you are interested in learning how and why to bind books with leather, this is the class for you.

PLEASE TAKE HEED! This is part of a sequential series of classes which follows Orientation to Leather. If you have not taken Orientation to Leather, you must do so before you can register, participate in, and enjoy this class. You must also take Orientation to Leather in order to receive the leatherworking tool you will need for Leather 1. 

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Materials to Bring: Leather knife received in Orientation to Leather, medium paste brush (round), pencil and paper for taking notes.

Optional and available at SFCB for student use during workshop: metal ruler with metric increments (no cork); utility knife, bone folder(s), dividers, scissors, awl or pin vise.

Workshop Fee (includes $60 materials fee): $390.00

Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, April 18 & 19, 2020 :: 9:30am-5:30pm

Location: 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Note: Please read over the SFCB Registration Policies before signing up for a class

REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 3 DAYS PRIOR TO THE START DATE OF THIS WORKSHOP.


About the Instructor | Juliayn Coleman

Juliayn Coleman has been a professional bookbinder since her graduation from the North Bennet Street School bookbinding program in 2003. Her private practice encompasses all levels of book repair and conservation, custom portfolio and enclosure making, teaching, and being a good ambassador for the craft of bookbinding in general. Some of her creative and professional projects can be seen at  www.bookislandbindery.com.


Past Student Reviews:

“Juliayn is great, a wealth of knowledge, ready and willing to answer questions and assist students theoretically and practically. For as much as we had to accomplish in two days, the class was very well organized, we all learned a ton, we got to walk away with a beautiful leather binding; a very fulfilling class.”

“Very good instruction. Interesting structure.”

[What did you like most about the workshop?] “Step-by step I made my first leather book.”

“Juliayn is amazing. If she can teach me leather paring, anyone can learn. :-)”

375 Rhode Island St
San Francisco, CA 94103-5133
United States