Korean-Style Binding with Wax Decoration Covers
March 25 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
The traditional Korean binding structure has a few distinct characteristics for a side-stitched East Asian binding structure and in this workshop you will get to try them firsthand. Aside from the traditional aesthetic of using red sewing thread and a yellow, soft paper cover, these books were decorated with a wax-transfer pattern and utilized the beautiful and durable handmade paper Korean paper, known as hanji.
Included in this workshop: all book materials will be provided including modern, lightweight Asian paper sympathetic to traditional hanji for text your textblock, traditional yellow-dyed fiber paper for the covers, and wood stencil for the decorative pattern making. This style of binding can also be easily adaptable to make contemporary books for sketching, drawing, and artists books.
Tools required (gather yourself): X-Acto knife or scalpel, metal ruler (at least 12”), bone folder, cutting mat, scissors, scrap of foam core or cardboard for punching sewing stations, awl or pin-vice for punching holes, waste paper, pencil.
Adults 18+
Registration: $80; includes a $30 materials kit mailed to you via US flat-rate shipping (US-only please). Please register by March 10, to allow time for kits to arrive.
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Location: Online via Zoom. We are planning to make a recording of the program available to everyone who has registered for several weeks afterwards, so you will be able to watch the entire program at your convenience even if you can’t join us live.
Cancellations and refund requests must be made a minimum of three days (72 hours) prior to the first class date, by calling (713) 522-4652.
About the instructor: Jeanne Goodman is a Conservator for the University Libraries at Texas A&M University with more than ten years of experience in preservation and collections. She received her MLIS from Simmons College with a concentration in Preservation and undergraduate work with University of Delaware in Collections Care. She completed the full-time Bookbinding program at North Bennet Street School and a Von Clemm Fellow with the Boston Athenaeum. Jeanne enjoys teaching and connecting with the community through classroom lectures, instruction, bookbinding and book arts workshops, and demonstrations of historical craft techniques.
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