
Learn how to make an artisanal notebook from scratch using basic bookbinding techniques and tools.
Try basic bookbinding skills and gain the confidence to continue making beautifully bound books and notebooks from home. You'll be introduced to some bookbinding tools as well as basic bookbinding techniques.Learn how to make a single section, quarter-bound cloth notebook, the perfect keepsake for storing your own thoughts or for gifting to the writer in your life.
You will receive a kit (pictured) that allows you to create two notebooks from different coloured cloths (finished books pictured), and get introduced to specialist bookbinding tools as well as some basic book-binding techniques. You will get to make your very own personalised notebook and skills to continue making beautiful notebooks anywhere.
Learn how to make a single section, quarter-bound cloth notebook, the perfect keepsake for storing your own thoughts or for gifting to the writer in your life.
You will receive a kit (pictured) that allows you to create two notebooks from different coloured cloths, and get introduced to specialist bookbinding tools as well as some basic book-binding techniques. You will get to make your very own personalised notebook and skills to continue making beautiful notebooks anywhere.
What's in the kit?
- 1 x Bone folder
- 1 x Awl
- 1 x Paste brush
- 1 x Pot of bookbinders glue
- 16 x Sheets of text paper
- 4 x Endpapers
- 2 x Spine linings
- 1 x Sewing template
- 1 x Size 18 needle
- 1 x Thread
- 2 x Spine cloths - narrower cloth
- 4 x Cover cloths
- 1 x Spine gauge
- 1 x 8 cm ruler
- 1 x Nipping gauge
- 4 x Blotting paper
- 4 x Silicone release Paper
How this course is taught?
What else do I need?
- An apron
- Scissors
- A bin near by to throw away gluey waste paper immediately
- Waste paper - can be newspaper
- A cutting mat or some flat surface you are not concern with getting marked or dirty
- Boards or some heavy books larger than the notebooks for pressing over night
Delivery info

Kate Rochester
Kate spent her childhood in Devon before moving to London to study art history. After completing her BA she studied book-binding at London College Of Printing. In 2004 she set up Hanbury Press, a small independent press named after a studio on Hanbury Street in London's East End where the press started. She works in a London bindery and teaches bookbinding workshops across London.