Making Your Own Bookcloth
Adult Course | Registration opens 2/4/2025 7:00 AM MST
Being able to make book cloth immensely expands the range of possibilities for the materials in your bookbinding, opening up a whole new set of choices for cloth color, texture, and weight. Many types of cloth can be made into excellent book cloth and create a unique look to your books. In this workshop, students will learn how to make book cloth in two different ways from start to finish, and leave with many finished samples. Learning objectives include: Learning to make bookcloth on their own with commercial fabrics of all kinds, and tips and tricks for best results. This workshop will give students greater creative freedom over the look and feel of covers for books, boxes, and portfolios.
Class will include:
- Welcome/ Vocabulary/samples
- Studio Set-up and handouts, make bookcloth #1
- Set-up and handouts, make bookcloth #2
- Review and clean-up
- Please note we will not be making any books in this class
- Fabric Scissors, pencil, notebook, Hand towel, water spray bottle, small sample fabrics 10" square (clean and natural materials only), fabric iron in good condition if you have one.
Rhiannon Alpers
Rhiannon Alpers is a papermaker, letterpress printer, and book artist. She has an MFA and a BA in Book Arts and Papermaking. She has taught academic courses and workshops nationally since 2003, and relocated to the Denver area with her family in 2021 from San Francisco. She produces limited edition and sculptural artist books under the imprint of Gazelle and Goat Press. Rhiannon is a member of Spark Gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District. Visit her website at rhiannonalpers.com for more information and artwork.