Sponsored by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, Karen Hanmer held this workshop virtually on August 22, 2020.
From the flyer: “For centuries paper has served as a quick, elegant, and economical covering material for books. This versatile material can create structures ranging from pocket notebooks to conservation-friendly bindings to a case durable enough for a heavily-used manual. Exposed Sewing with Decorative Guards features colorful link stitch sewing and slivers of decorative paper visible on the spine. The covers are hooked around the first and last signatures before sewing, then sewn normally along with the rest of the text block. A quick-to-construct self-locking flap keeps the text block clean and secure.”
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