Bookmaking Workshop with Rachelle Chuang

CASE-BOUND BOOKMAKING WORKSHOP

Learn how to make the traditional codex book that has endured for hundreds of years. You will create one hard-cover formal blank book. This truly is the most classic and satisfying aspect of bookmaking. You will sew the textblock together first, add end sheets, reinforce the spine, add headbands and a ribbon, construct a 3-board case and then attach together. The goal is to have you walk out with a formal book and be able to recreate it in the future.  These workshops emphasize physical craftsmanship. Though no prior skills are needed, the workshop is demanding and involves measuring, folding, cutting, piercing, sewing and gluing.  

$30.00 Materials Fee for the Case Bound Bookmaking Workshop
Online Registration Required:

WE'RE SORRY - REGISTRATION FOR THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW CLOSED

Rachelle Woo Chuang is a fine artist, educator and curator. She majored in Graphic Design at Biola and holds an M.A. in Biblical/Interdisciplinary Studies from Talbot Theological Seminary. She has worked as both an in-house and freelance graphic designer. While living on the East Coast, she discovered hand papermaking, letterpress and the book arts at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and worked under papermaking artist Ellen Mears Kennedy. In 2006 she received her M.F.A. in Book Arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. PA. Her current fine artwork in handmade paper addresses surface, materiality and metaphor through book forms and sculptural paper structures, which are exhibited locally and across the country. Rachelle teaches in the Art Departments of Chapman University, Biola University and Irvine Valley College. Rachelle’s work is published in 500 Handmade Books by Lark Books.