Bookbinding courses, workshops & holidays

BOOKBINDING COURSES DIRECTORY
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Binding Re:Defined

based: Wiltshire, UK

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A range of one to four-day workshops held in a fully equipped bindery in the village of Woodborough. These workshops are run by a group of professional binders and cover a range of topics and are suitable for a range of bookbinding experience.

| bookbinding | England |

 

Farthing Press and Bindery (The)

based: Powys, Wales, UK

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The Farthing Press & Bindery is a hand bookbinding centre and leather craft workshop. They offer a range of bookbinding courses, including basic skills, book repair, full leather binding and book making.

| bookbinding | Wales |

 

Otter Bindery (The)

based: Surrey, UK

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Regular bookbinding courses and individual tuition. Offering courses for all abilities from beginner upwards. They also run occasional specialist workshops with outside tutors, covering topics such as home bookbinder, paper conservation and gold tooling.

| bookbinding | England |

 

Book Bindery (The)

based: Cornwall, UK

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Workshops in different bookbinding styles, paper craft, book arts and other crafts, run by a master bookbinder.

| bookbinding | England |

 

Cat Tail Run Hand Bookbinding

based: Virginia, USA

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The School for Bookbinding Arts at Cat Tail Run offers a range of courses and workshops in hand bookbinding and book restoration.

| bookbinding | USA |

 

Cockram Books

based: London, UK

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Six-day 'Introduction to Bookbinding' course, which can be split into three two-day sessions if required.

| bookbinding | England |

 

European Research Centre

based: Austria

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The European Research Centre for Book and Paper Conservation/Restoration offer courses for further professional development.

| bookbinding | Austria |

 

Grange (The)

based: Shropshire, UK

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Craft centre B&B in Ellesmere, offering weekend courses and retreats in bookbinding, beginners paper marbling and letterpress printing.

| bookbinding | paper crafts | printmaking | UK |

 

Learn Bookbinding

based: Devon, UK

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Workshops in Cornwall and Devon, teaching traditional bookbinding techniques.

| bookbinding | England |

 

Renaissance Bookbinding & Restoration

based: Victoria, Australia

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Workshops for beginners and the more advanced; covering book restoration and conservation, historical and contemporary binding.

| bookbinding | Australia |

 

Shepherds Falkiners

based: London, UK

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One, two and five-day workshops in London and Wiltshire, covering the principals of bookbinding.

| bookbinding | England |

 

FEATURED BOOKBINDING HOLIDAYS

 

BOOKCRAFTS CLUBS:

The Southern Bookcrafts Club

If you live in southern England and within reach of Winchester, you might be interested in the Southern Bookcrafts Club as an alternative way to get bookbinding training and experience. The club was set up to help develop the crafts of book restoration and binding in the area.

 

They have their own bindery in Winchester and this can be used by members, either individually as required, or as groups during workshops and training. The use of the bindery gives access to standing and hand tools and bookbinding materials, members also have individual storage there.

 

The club offers training for members at all levels of experience and covering a range of subjects including: corners, headbands, endpapers, finishing, slip cases, sewing, onlays, boxes, repairing pages, cleaning paper, and leather dyeing.