Book Binding Workshop

In Person Workshop

Open Spine Coptic Stitch
Book Binding Workshop

Julie will walk you through the basics of how to bind your own journal using the Coptic stitch. You will start with sheets of paper, waxed thread, and book board, and end with a usable and fully functional book.

The following tools and materials will be provided (but feel free to bring anything you might have on hand at home):

  • Book board
  • Cover paper
  • Waxed thread
  • Lined paper
  • Scissors/xacto knives
  • Awl
  • Bead reamer
  • Ruler
  • Bone/teflon folder
  • Tapestry needles (C or J-shape preferred)
  • Cutting pad
  • Phone Book
  • A heavy college textbook

What You’ll Learn:

  • Book binding vocabulary
  • Coptic Stitch
  • Open spine binding

Preregistration and Pay Required:

In order to be fully prepared for each binder, preregistration and pre-payment is required. If this is a problem for you, feel free to send an email to julie@nessbyjulie.art.

Register here

Cancellation Policy:

If, unfortunately, you cannot join us, your workshop fee can be transferred to a gift card up until 24 hours before the workshop. Within 24-hours, the fee is not exchangeable.

Julie Orndorff
the artist behind -NbJ

I am an artist delighting in whatever medium delights my my mind. Some of my favorites are book binding, and watercolor and ink. My favorite part of book binding is the permanence and dependence that all the pieces of the book have. The book will fall apart if too many pages are removed. So whatever graces the pages, must stay.

I’m based outside of Cleveland and accept commissions from all over the globe.