Upcycled Bookbinding

Join Edinburgh-based bookbinder Cass Barron for a welcoming, bookbinding workshop celebrating creativity, reuse and making new from old as part of Dunblane Eco Fest. You will begin by creating decorative papers using recycled and remnant materials. This playful introduction encourages experimentation through low-tech mark-making techniques using simple tools and found objects that can easily be recreated at home. You will then learn decorative binding stitches to assemble a collection of hand-bound notebooks, incorporating your handmade papers and upcycled waste papers into the covers, and if you wish, stitching found objects into the spine. Along the way, you will be introduced to Japanese stab binding, transforming pre-loved materials into something beautiful, practical and entirely your own.