{"id":2272,"date":"2015-10-30T16:51:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T20:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2015-10-30T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T20:54:33","slug":"secret-belgian-binding-workshop-at-asheville-bookworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/secret-belgian-binding-workshop-at-asheville-bookworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Belgian Binding Workshop at Asheville Bookworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sewing<\/p>\n

This summer I was feeling a little bored with my usual coptic stitch, and I thought I’d look into taking a class at Asheville Bookworks<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. Last year I took a wonderful week long class at nearby Penland School of Crafts\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and when I was in Asheville I took a peek into Bookworks and loved the space! Just my luck, the class available in September at Bookworks, Secret Belgian Binding,\u00c2\u00a0was taught by a fellow classmate from Penland, Hollis Fouts<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Holly was a wonderful and patient teacher, and I highly recommend her class – here are some picture highlights from my project:<\/p>\n

\"chiyogami<\/p>\n

I carefully cut out this purple cranes chiyogami paper to collage onto the purple lokta paper I used on the covers. I worked a little faster than some of the other folks in class, so this gave me something to do while waiting for the next step.<\/p>\n

\"French<\/p>\n

The text block for the secret Belgian binding was sewn using one of my favorite decorative bookbinding stitches, french link stitch<\/a>. This stitch is also functional because it makes a tighter binding. You can also see the teflon tapes we sewed around, which made lacing the cover on easier later.<\/p>\n

\"Secret<\/p>\n

Here I am sewing the cover, lacing in the text block with every pass. All of the cover thread (pictured here in white) is one looooong piece \u00c2\u00a0– I think this one was 9 feet long.<\/p>\n

\"Finished<\/p>\n

Ta da! Here’s my finished book! The finished size was bout 7″x9″ – I made this one for myself in my favorite color – purple!<\/p>\n

\"Secret<\/p>\n

Here are some of the other books made by my classmates – they came out beautifully! Many of the 8 or so class participants had never made a handmade book at all, which makes it even more impressive since the secret Belgian binding was pretty tricky!<\/p>\n

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I don’t think I’ll be adding these to my repertoire anytime soon because they are so technical and labor intensive, but I had a lot of fun challenging myself to learn a new technique!<\/p>\n

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Check out the Asheville Bookworks site to see if there any good classes coming up:<\/p>\n

www.AshevilleBookworks.com<\/a><\/p>\n

You can also check out Holly’s website to see what classes she has coming up:<\/p>\n

www.HollisFouts.com\/home\/schedule<\/a><\/p>\n

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This summer I was feeling a little bored with my usual coptic stitch, and I thought I’d look into taking a class at Asheville Bookworks\u00c2\u00a0in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. Last year I took a wonderful week long class at nearby Penland School of Crafts\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0and when I was in Asheville I took a peek into Bookworks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,99],"tags":[46,226],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}