4-weeks Beginners bookbinding course
Every Thursday, beginning on 4th February - 25th February
6.30pm-8.30pm

This course is aimed at absolute beginners who will be introduced to grain direction,
paper cutting, stab binding, pamphlet stitching and other single section binding
.

Isabelle will lead each workshop, taking you through various techniques stage-by-stage,
as well as responding to digressions and any queries. You’ll be given the chance to
work with both paper and leather and should be able to make a number of books over
the four-week period.


8-weeks Bookbinding course
Every Monday, beginning on the 8th February - 29th March 2010
6.30pm-8.30pm
Not for Beginners
During this course Isabelle will be focusing on gorgeous spine work, particularly on the
complex and often beautiful stitches that are needed to build a spine.

Isabelle will lead each workshop, taking you through various techniques stage-by-stage, as
well as responding to digressions and any queries. You’ll be given the chance to work
with both paper and leather and should be able to make at least eight books over the 8-week period.

Isabelle Ting is a professional bookbinder and co-founder of the Owl & Lion Gallery in
Edinburgh. She graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art and completed her bookbinding
training in Florence. For the last years she has been running bookbinding workshops
through her own gallery as well as on behalf of the National Library of Scotland and
Edinburgh College of Art.

If you’d like to book please visit the Online Shop