for the hands
Sewing and rounding
Learn the stitches that keep a spine flexible after fifty years on a shelf, and why tension matters more than speed.
Ten days at the bench in Halden. Not only about sewing signatures, but about how a book keeps holding together.
See the course planLearn the stitches that keep a spine flexible after fifty years on a shelf, and why tension matters more than speed.
Match stock, direction and weight so the pages turn the way the book was meant to be read.
Every fix on the bench has to be reversible by whoever opens the same volume in forty years.
We close each day with one shared meal and whatever is still clamped in the press.