Beginners Bookbinding Workshop
Foyle Rooms
Learn how to make handcrafted notebooks from the expert Aimee at Woodle Books. This workshop is for anyone with an interest in books and a love of stationery. Over 16 only.
Learn how to fold and manipulate paper using specialist tools and how to apply this to bookbinding.
You’ll learn how to make a pamphlet notebook – a simple single-section notebook with hard covers – with an extensive choice of cloth and endpapers to make your notebook unique.
At the end of the session, you’ll leave with your very own set of beginners tools, a hardbound notebook and the opportunity to purchase a copy of Aimee’s Bookbinding and How to Bring Old Books Back to Life.
This workshop is a gateway to the wonderful world of bookbinding, proving that it can done at home, easily by everyone.
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About Aimee
Aimee has been bookbinding for over 12 years, she trained at City Lit in London gaining a level 3 City and Guilds bookbinding qualification. She then went onto
train in conservation at Windsor Castle where she worked on books to be shown to Barack Obama and other visiting dignitaries. She then went on to work for a top london bookbinder where she excelled at leather rebacks for Cambridge University and helped to construct the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday card.
After 5 years she decided to go freelance and experience more binderies and working privately. Through a mixture of markets, private conservation work, commercial work, teaching and writing a book Aimee keeps busy and is always
happy to discuss stationery with fellow lovers.
Bookbinding should be accessible to all. Aimee strives to show how it can be done in your own home with a few basic tools and will bring you a lot of joy, especially if you love stationery – imagine being able to make your own notebooks!
