5 days, 5 techniques

Course location Ascona

The Plastic Panel Binding, the Stretchbook, The Loop and the Limp Binding 3.0, the Self-binder, the Saddler Binding

Bernhard Sanders demonstrates binding styles that come from his forays into innovative techniques using plastic, board, paper and saddlery leather. During the workshop we will explore the function and the opening characteristics of binding techniques, their limits, and the synergy of material, format and proportion. We will produce 5 non-adhesive contemporary bindings whose roots are anchored in the classical book, yet are freed from the strictness of the tradition. The “easy book” on the difficult road to open thinking ;)