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San Francisco, CA 94141
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A close-knit group of hand bookbinders, with shared interests in creating and collecting fine bindings, joined together to promote hand bookbinding and related book arts and to exchange information and ideas. 

Past Workshops

Learn to make the Steckalbum with Nadine Werner

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Learn to make the Steckalbum with Nadine Werner

$170.00

Nadine Werner will be teaching the Steckalbum (a registered patent), an adhesive-free interlocking binding structure, for the first time in the United States. For the Steckalbum, Nadine developed a simple method to connect the album using one long piece of paper that becomes both the cover and the spine.

The album can lay perfectly flat and allows the option to interchange the internal double sheets.

When

Session 1: Tuesday, March 15th, 10 am - 1 pm PST

Session 2: Tuesday, March 29th, 10 am - 1 pm PST

Where

Online via Zoom (zoom link will be sent before the workshop)

Material Kit: A material kit will be mailed to you at the shipping address you enter during checkout.

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Materials needed for class

  • bonefolder

  • cutting tool: x-acto knife or similar with NEW blades, it is important that it is sharp

  • double sided tape - .5” wide, recommended 3M 415 tape

  • straight edge

  • metal triangle

  • 2” / 300mm METRIC ruler

  • hole punch (Japanese hole punch) or awl

Students need to prepare the following BEFORE class

Students will need to create a scoring guide that measures 12.5” x 12.5” (see image below). To create the scoring guide, use two pieces of 12.5" Davey board.

One piece of board will be the base and remain uncut. Cut the second piece of board into two pieces at 4”. Then, attach the 4”-wide length of the board to the base of the uncut Davey Board using double-sided tape. Next, leave a 2 mm gap (about 1/16th of an inch) and attach the 8.5” piece of the board onto the base.

This creates a gap that will be used for scoring the cardstock. Your bone folder must fit into this gap in order to create a clean scoring line.


Instructor Bio

Nadine Werner has been working as a bookbinder for over 20 years. She went through a traditional apprenticeship in Hamburg, Germany, followed by studies at the established Craft Academy for Design in Kassel, where she received her degree as a handicraft designer.

After her studies she went for a yearlong experience as a journeyman in New Zealand, studying with Book Artists all over the country.

Coming back to Germany she opened her own bindery in 2005 as a freelance book and paper designer, concentrating on non-adhesive bindings and incorporating magnetic closures.

In 2007 Nadine began collaborating with the Canadian publishing company Hartley & Marks, significantly developing a product series called "Paper-oh." Over time she developed an ever-increasing passion for paper folding, especially Origami tessellations. She added art photography and cyanotype to her oeuvre. Most recently Nadine has been working with Bookbinding out of the box, an international network of instructors, on the idea of an expanding slipcase.

Nadinewerner.com & instagram @buchundpapier