Brandon Harringtonbookbinder, community educator, library worker
Workshops & Events
Current Workshops
During a two-hour studio session, participants will learn how to:
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Identify paper grain direction
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Fold gatherings (“signatures”) with a bonefolder
- Sew covers and signatures together with the French Link Stitch sewing technique
The instructor will discuss next steps for covering and decorating the journal you made as well as resources to learn more about hand bookbinding. Journal prompts will also be available for participants to take with them at the end of the session to inspire an entry or two.
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Supplemental Resources
Review the process and continue your sewn board binding project at home! Recommended resources below on how to add hardcover boards, cover your notebook, and customize your new pocket journal.
Visit the Resources page for recommendations on tools, materials, and further book arts learning.
Check out these videos:
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DAS Bookbinding Sewn Board Binding (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) Sewn Board Binding Tutorial by Peter Baumgartner (download “any-size” punch template) Four Keys Book Arts, “Making a Hardcover Book: The Sewn Boards Binding”
Past Workshops & Events
A beginner-friendly bookbinding workshop where you’ll sew a simple pamphlet notebook—perfect for zines, journals, or chapbooks—and take home your own handmade book. We’ll provide all materials and guide you step by step through the process. No experience needed.
Workshop offered as a free skill share at a local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, introducing Coptic stitch binding techniques and featuring covers with hand-marbled and block printed decorative papers.
Workshop offered to library co-workers to introduce bookbinding tools and techniques, including a 1 sheet folded zine and a pamphlet stitch binding with a decorative cover. Session included experience with paper grain direction, sewing tips & tricks, discussing bookbinding’s relevance to daily library work, and time away from the usual library workday to try something new and creative.
Hosted by Ayuzin the Barber at Camera Ready Kutz, Brooklyn, NY on Friday, September 22nd. AMAT is a free, covid-conscious, seasonal gathering and book-lovers group.
Access the workshop materials on the Resources page.
Organized through The Solidarity Project, a conversation on May 30, 2021 with Brooklyn-based bookmaker Brandon Harrington + illustrator, writer, and baker Alex Bildsoe. Moderated by curatorial assistant Jack Holloway. The artists discuss new ways of being, thinking, and making through creating books.
The past year has prompted people everywhere to experience and reflect on solitude. Facing drastically new circumstances, we have had to re-learn the meaning of resourcefulness, community, and solidarity. The artists speaking with us have navigated this terrain and have found ways to create as individuals for and with the collective, reaching out in order to be themselves.
These artists share with what it looks like for them to start from scratch, to regard convenience as the enemy of creativity, and to facilitate new artistic possibilities through texts and objects. More info here.