Bookbinding 102: Workshop for Adults & Teens

Bookbinding 102 is a hands-on bookbinding workshop for adults & teens brought to you by Booklyn, Inc., and hosted at Interference Archive in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.

Learn to make your own sketchbooks, notebooks, and journals using the long stitch binding method. This type of exposed-stitch binding dates back to medieval Europe, typically created as a blank book for record-keeping. The binding design is easily altered and participants will be able to make their own personal variations. Once you get it down, this is a quick technique requiring relatively few tools that you can use for all your future notebooks!

You can bring your own paper to bind or use our selection of various paper types to make a journal, sketchbook, or blank book. Two hours will be dedicated to learning and binding. 30 minutes will be reserved for studio time so you can finish your projects. You are welcome to make one or several books as time allows.

All materials and tools will be provided. No previous bookbinding experience is necessary, but an interest in writing, drawing, or crafting will go a long way. We strongly believe that bookmaking is for everyone interested in making them.

Questions? Email us at [email protected].

Instructor: María Verónica San Martín (she/her) is a Chilean New York-based multidisciplinary artist and educator who explores the impacts of history, memory, and trauma through archives, artist books, installation, sculpture and performance.

She is a 2023 Sustainable Arts grantee, a Whitney Museum ISP artist, and has received two New York Foundation for the Arts grants and three Chilean National scholarships (Fondart). She is a professor at Parsons School of Design, The New School in New York City, and she teaches at the Center for Book Arts in New York and is part of the Booklyn Inc. bilingual educational program. During the summers, she teaches at Penland School of Craft in Asheville, NC, and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. San Martin has also led workshops for Vera List, The New School, The Weeksville Heritage Center, Bard College, Trinity College, Lincoln Center, and Mixteca and Pride Center with Booklyn Inc.

Bookbinding 101 is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the NY City Council.

Bookbinding 101 is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the NY City Council.

Thank you to for supporting this workhop.

Host or Publisher Booklyn