Case Bound Journal with Instructor John Cutrone, June 7, 2026

Sunday, June 7, 2026, from 10:30 AM to 4 PM (with a break); $125 tuition includes all materials. When most of us think of a book, this is what's in our head: a book of many pages, bound in hard covers. We'll teach you how to make just that. The technical name for it is a Case Binding. In this in-house workshop, you'll learn how to fold and create signatures (gatherings of pages), how to make a template for punching sewing stations in those signatures, how to create your text block by hand-sewing those signatures, and how to consolidate the spine. Next, you'll learn how to build a case, fully covered in book cloth. Finally, you'll learn how to bring both elements together (how to "case-in" your book) and you'll go home at the end of the workshop with your own full cloth hardcover journal. The finished book will be a most pleasing size: about 10 1/4" tall x 8 3/8" wide with enough blank pages to last you a good long time –– depending on how often you journal, this book will probably l