Make a Jacob's Ladder Box, with Don Taylor

It is actually a double box! Two identical boxes with hinged lids are joined together in a manner inspired by the Jacob's Ladder toy. This special hinging method allows for the boxes to "roll" around each other so that the contents of either one, or both, boxes can be accessed and displayed at any one time.

Expert bookbinder and box maker, Don Taylor, will guide you through process step by step. From constructing the boxes, to covering them in luxurious Lacquered Yuzen and Moriki Kozo papers (you will be able to choose one patterned and one solid-coloured paper on the registration form). At the end of the workshop, you will go home with a beautiful Jacob's Ladder Box and the knowledge to make more! This workshop is beginner friendly.

• a notebook & pen
• an apron, or dress in studio attire
• your lunch!

All tools & materials included. Box-board will be pre-cut.
The cost of this ticket includes: $149.00 workshop fee, Eventbrite fees and HST for a total cost of $180.82

Don Taylor has been a bookbinder in Toronto since 1980. His practice includes book restoration, design bindings, portfolio making and corporate and edition binding for design firms, architects, small presses and private customers.
Since 1984 Don has been a teacher for the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists' Guild (CBBAG)and Sir Sandford Fleming College in Haliburton ON. Don's designer bindings and book works have appeared in exhibitions across Canada and in Japan, Italy and France. Examples of his work can be found in private and public collections in Canada, the U.S., Japan, and the United Kingdom.

He is also the proprietor of Pointyhead Press which produces book works on subjects such as travel, memoir, and the curious.

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