book arts

Cork Journal with Fabric Lining

February 18 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

REGISTER

Cork fabric is a beautiful, fun, new material that is a great eco-friendly alternative to leather. In this beginner level class, we will line the cork with cotton fabric and use the versatile long stitch binding to create a three signature journal. Instructions and tips on how to measure covers, create signatures and jigs, and bind the book will be covered. Students will leave the class with their completed project and the skills to make a cork journal at home.

No need to bring anything, all materials and tools will be provided.

Recommended ages/level: Adults 18+, Beginner

Registration: $115 including all materials.
Members receive a 10% discount. Become a member today!

Members must log in to activate the discount. If you are a member and don’t have a login, please contact us at info[at]printingmuseum.org.

Location: This workshop is in-person at The Printing Museum in our NEW LOCATION, 3121 San Jacinto St.

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.

Google Calendar
iCal Export

Details

Date:
February 18, 2023
Time:
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Cost:
$115
Event Categories:
,
Event Tags:
, ,
Website:
https://printingmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/cork-journal-with-fabric-lining/2952317

Organizer

Missy Bosch

Paper Marbling

February 11 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

REGISTER

Have you wondered how those beautiful marbled patterned papers are made? In this hands-on one-day workshop, instructor Tony Vela will show you how! The class will start by going over the preparation of materials, including the carrageenan bath, alum treatment of your paper, and getting pigments to the right state ready for marbling. You’ll learn many of the traditional patterns, such as the Stone marble, Get Gel, Nonpareil, Peacock, French curl, Spanish wave, and more. Each person will be able to make up to 15 marbled sheets to take home.

Level: No experience necessary | Adults 18+


Registration: $120, including materials

Members receive a 10% discount. Become a member today!
Members must log in to activate the discount. If you don’t have a login, please contact us at info[at]printingmuseum.org.

Location: This workshop is in-person at The Printing Museum in our NEW LOCATION, 3121 San Jacinto St.

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.

Google Calendar
iCal Export

Details

Date:
February 11, 2023
Time:
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Cost:
$120
Event Categories:
,
Event Tags:
, , ,
Website:
https://printingmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/paper-marbling/2952206

Organizer

Tony Vela
Website:
https://www.velacustombookmakers.com/

Introduction to Book Arts

February 4 @ 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm

REGISTER

This one-day workshop will introduce you to the basics of making books, covering fundamentals such as paper grain, folding, and stitching. Participants will gain understanding of both techniques and materials by working with paper, thread, and adhesives. We will be making a variety of structures, including a one-page folded book, a single-section pamphlet stitch, an accordion, and a Japanese stab binding. You will be able to leave with several binding styles under your belt, and the knowledge of how to adapt these structures to make your own notebooks, journals, or sketchbooks. No previous experience necessary. Adults 18+

Registration: $95, includes all materials.
Members receive a 10% discount. Become a member today! Members must log in to activate the discount. If you don’t have a login, please contact us at info[at]printingmuseum.org.

Location: This workshop is in-person at The Printing Museum in our NEW LOCATION, 3121 San Jacinto St.

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.

Google Calendar
iCal Export

Details

Date:
February 4, 2023
Time:
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Cost:
$95
Event Categories:
,
Event Tags:
,
Website:
https://printingmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/introduction-to-book-arts/2952205

Organizer

Adrianne O’Donnell
Phone:
713-522-4652 x209
Email:
aodonnell@printingmuseum.org

Follow-Along Friday: Holiday Origami

December 9 @ 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm

REGISTER

Gather your supplies and follow along with us as we create holiday origami together over lunch! The small class size allows for individual attention and Q&A, so sign up early before it fills up. This workshop is best-suited for participants 13 years of age and older.

Materials & Supplies you’ll want to gather ahead of time:

  • paper: 2-5 sheets on hand, cut to square. Metallic paper for the stars looks especially lovely if you have it.
  • optional: bone folder to help making creasing easier, but a spoon works too!

Location: Online via Zoom. 

Registration: In order to best serve our community near and far, many of our online classes are pay-what-you-can. The amount you choose to pay goes directly toward making our programs accessible to all. We suggest $20/hr, for those who’ve asked for a suggestion; more if you have it, less if you don’t.

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.

Google Calendar
iCal Export

Details

Date:
December 9, 2022
Time:
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Cost:
Pay-what-you-can
Event Categories:
,
Event Tags:
, , ,
Website:
https://printingmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/follow-along-friday-holiday-origami/2939715

Organizer

Jessica Snow

Korean-Style Binding with Wax Decoration Covers

November 12 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

REGISTER

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.

Ages: best suited for those ages 13+

Registration: $75; includes a $25 materials kit mailed to you via US flat-rate shipping (US-only please). Please note the registration deadline, Oct 28th, two weeks prior to class starting, to allow time for kits to arrive.

Members receive a 10% discount. Become a member today! Members must log in to activate the discount. If you don’t have a login, please contact us at info[at]printingmuseum.org.

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.

Google Calendar
iCal Export

Details

Date:
November 12, 2022
Time:
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Cost:
$75
Event Categories:
, ,
Event Tags:
, ,
Website:
https://printingmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/korean-style-binding-with-wax-decoration-covers/2938899

Organizer

Jeanne Goodman

ONLINE

TX
713-522-4652
printingmuseum.org

Follow-Along Friday: Fishbone Fold Book

November 11 @ 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm

SOLD OUT!


This class is full, but consider our next Follow-Along-Friday on Dec 9th where we’ll be doing Holiday Origami.

Or the next instance of the Fishbone Fold book will be Feb 24th, 2023 – sign up now!

Sign up for Feb 24, 2023

Gather your supplies and follow along with us as we make a fishbone fold book together. This unique origami-style book starts as a single sheet of paper that comes together after scoring, cutting, and folding it just so. The small class size allows for individual attention, so sign up early before it fills up! This workshop is best-suited for participants 13 years of age and older.

Materials & Supplies you’ll want to gather ahead of time:

  • regular text-weight paper 4″ x 12″ long
  • cardstock 3 1/4″ x 2″
  • ruler
  • bonefolder (or other tool for scoring)
  • glue stick
  • Xacto knife & cutting mat.

Location: Online via Zoom

Registration: In order to best serve our community near and far, many of our online classes are pay-what-you-can. The amount you choose to pay goes directly toward making our programs accessible to all. We suggest $20/hr, for those who’ve asked for a suggestion; more if you have it, less if you don’t.

Members receive a 10% discount. Become a member today! Members must log in to activate the discount. If you don’t have a login, please contact us at info[at]printingmuseum.org.

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.

Google Calendar
iCal Export

Details

Date:
November 11, 2022
Time:
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Cost:
Pay-what-you-can
Event Categories:
, ,
Event Tags:
, , ,
Website:
https://printingmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/follow-along-friday-fishbone-fold-book/2939719

Organizer

Adrianne O’Donnell
Phone:
713-522-4652 x209
Email:
aodonnell@printingmuseum.org

Follow-Along Friday: Paper Beads

October 7 @ 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm

REGISTER

Gather your supplies and follow along with us as we make paper beads together! The small class size allows for individual attention and Q&A, so sign up early before it fills up. This workshop is best-suited for participants 13 years of age and older.

Materials & Supplies you’ll want to gather ahead of time:

  • paper – scraps work great! Whatever pieces of decorative paper, colored paper, magazine pages… just about anything works
  • glue – either PVA, white glue, glue stick
  • cutting supplies – a metal-edged rulers & X-acto knife & cutting mat (preferred), or scissors.
  • awl, quilling tool, or round toothpick

Location: Online via Zoom

Registration: In order to best serve our community near and far, many of our online classes are pay-what-you-can. The amount you choose to pay goes directly toward making our programs accessible to all. We suggest $20/hr, for those who’ve asked for a suggestion; more if you have it, less if you don’t.

Members receive a 10% discount. Become a member today! Members must log in to activate the discount. If you don’t have a login, please contact us at info[at]printingmuseum.org.

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.

Google Calendar
iCal Export

Details

Date:
October 7, 2022
Time:
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Cost:
Pay-what-you-can
Event Categories:
,
Event Tags:
, ,
Website:
https://printingmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/follow-along-friday-paper-beads/2938087

Organizer

Adrianne O’Donnell
Phone:
713-522-4652 x209
Email:
aodonnell@printingmuseum.org

Sewn Paper Bindings

July 23 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

REGISTER by July 9

In this workshop students will make three books by sewing folded sheets into a paper cover. The exposed stitching is both structural and decorative. These single and double section books make excellent notebooks and work well for any short text.

Ages: best suited for those ages 13+

Tools required (gather yourself): bone folder, Olfa/Xacto/scalpel-style knife with sharp blade, metal ruler (at least 12”), cutting mat, PVA/paste & a small glue brush, paper rulers (1/2’’ x 11’’ strips of paper used for quick measurements), scrap of foam core or cardboard for punching sewing stations, waste paper, pencil.

Included in kit:

  • Awl
  • John James #18 Needle
  • Linen thread
  • Cover weight sheets (Indian Screenprint Sheets from Hollander’s)
  • Text weight sheets (Cranes Lettra Text, Fluorescent White)

Registration: $100, includes a $25 materials kit mailed to you via US flat-rate shipping (US-only please; contact us if you’re internationally-based and wish to source your own supplies). Please note the registration deadline July 9th to allow time for kits to arrive.

Members receive a 10% discount. Become a member today! Members must log in to activate the discount. If you don’t have a login, please contact us at info[at]printingmuseum.org.

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.

Google Calendar
iCal Export

Details

Date:
July 23, 2022
Time:
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Cost:
$100
Event Categories:
, ,
Event Tags:
, ,
Website:
https://printingmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/sewn-paper-bindings/2916221

Organizer

Syd Webb

Before the Xerox Machine: Rediscovering Obsolete Copying Technology + DIY Publishing

June 18 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Rich Dana

This in-person workshop (11AM – 3PM) explores pre-xerox copier technology and how contemporary artists and writers can use these low-cost techniques to publish editions of zines, chapbooks, prints, and flyers. We’ll begin by examining the history of office copying technology and how marginalized creators adopted these techniques in the early 20th century. Next, we’ll dive into demos of making master sheets, operation of vintage copiers, and creating your own simple copiers from off-the-shelf materials. Finally, participants will have full access to all of the materials and equipment to create their own editions with guidance from the instructor. We will explore hectography (gelatin printing) mimeography (stencil printing) and spirit duplication (alcohol transfers, also known as “ditto”).

Workshop
11AM-1PM: History, Technology and demos
1:30PM-3PM: Hands-on work session

Registration fee: $105

WORKSHOP
REGISTRATION


Drop-in
3:30-5PM: Zinemakers of all ages are invited to learn about mimeography and hectography, and create their own print!

Registration fee: $35.

DROP-IN
REGISTRATION


Register for the workshop, the drop-in session, or both for a full day of fun! Registration includes all materials and supplies.


Visiting artist Rich Dana will be at The Printing Museum for a special all-day event that includes a four-hour intensive workshop for artists and zine-makers ages 16 and up, and an hour-and-a-half drop-in session for the copier-curious of all ages.

About the instructor:
Rich Dana teaches at the Center for the Book & School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. A zine-maker, Rich is a lover of arcane technologies, visionary art, and analog anarchy. Rich also runs Obsolete Press, creating limited edition books and zines with artists and writers from around the world, editing and publishing OBSOLETE! Magazine, and teaching workshops on historical printing techniques and zine-making. His latest book is “Cheap Copies!: The OBSOLETE! Press Guide to DIY Hectography, Mimeography & Spirit Duplication”.

Details

Date:
June 18, 2022
Time:
11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Cost:
$35 – $140
Event Categories:
,
Event Tags:
, , ,

Organizer

Rich Dana
Website:
obsolete-press.com

Junk Journals

May 14 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

REGISTER

Using a Readers Digest book, participants will create a junk journal, which is a handmade book made with recycled/repurposed materials. The instructor will share methods for making pockets and fold out sections in the book as well as ways to dye/stain paper will.

In the class participants would:

  • Organize the papers to put in each signature, and trim them down with decorative scissors.
  • We will make pockets and foldouts as part of the signatures.
  • We will punch the holes in the book and signatures and stitch together.

All materials will be supplied, however participants are welcome to bring personal papers or ephemera that they would like to include in their junk journal!

Recommended ages/level: 16+. All experience levels welcome

Registration: $85 including all materials.
Members receive a 10% discount. Become a member today!

Members must log in to activate the discount. If you are a member and don’t have a login, please contact us at info[at]printingmuseum.org.

Location: The Printing Museum, 1324 W Clay St. Houston, TX 77019.

This workshop is in-person at The Printing Museum. We look forward to welcoming you back and are taking recommended safety precautions regarding COVID-19. The class size will also be limited, so sign up early!

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.

Google Calendar
iCal Export

Details

Date:
May 14, 2022
Time:
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Cost:
$85
Event Categories:
,
Event Tags:
, ,
Website:
https://printingmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/junk-journals/2887193

Organizer

Janet Reynolds