Japanese Bookbinding workshop for advanced

Product detailed description

We will also get to know an adapted sewn binding with a hard cover. As always, you’ll take home two original notebooks at the end. The workshop is intended for advanced participants and for graduates of the Japanese Bookbinding I workshop. It is not suitable for children and is English friendly. Capacity is limited to 6 participants to ensure plenty of space for individual guidance.

Key information:

• Capacity: 6 people / workshop
• Duration: 2 hours
• Location: kaš-mi-daš, Janovského 33, Prague 7 (map)
• Experience: for advanced participants and graduates of the previous beginners’ course
• Workshop language: Czech, English, German

The workshop price includes

• 2-hour course with expert instruction
• use of all necessary equipment
• two original notebooks that you create and take home
• unlimited non-alcoholic drinks from our café

How to get here

Janovského 33, Prague 7, 170 00 (a street parallel to Dukelských hrdinů)

• Trams 6 and 17, stop Veletržní palác (approx. 1 minute on foot)
• Metro Vltavská (approx. 7 minutes on foot)
• Parking at OC Stromovka (approx. 4 minutes on foot)

What the workshop can bring you

• deeper skills in hand bookbinding
• expanded techniques with more demanding structures and combinations of methods
• greater confidence when working with paper, stitching, and gluing
• inspiration for your own authorial book projects

This workshop builds on the basic course and takes you further – from simple stitching to more thoughtfully constructed binding forms. It remains focused, calm work, where a book is created step by step in your hands.

Workshop outline

The workshop takes place in the calm, focused atmosphere of the kaš-mi-daš stationery universe and includes these approximate stages:

Introduction and continuation from basic techniques

• a brief recap of Japanese binding principles
• introduction to tools and materials
• presentation of more advanced variations and their specifics

Creating a Japanese accordion book

• preparing and gluing paper sheets
• building the fold-out structure
• working with composition and materials

Adapted sewn binding with a hard cover

• preparing boards and inner pages
• more advanced work with stitching
• assembly and final finishing

At the end, you will take home two finished pieces and new technical know-how that you can use in your own projects.

Your instructor

Instructor Natálie

My name is Natálie Lepičová, and books are my great passion. At first, I was just an avid reader, but later, while studying Book and Paper Design at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Pilsen, I became a bookbinder who loves paper, textures, and colors.

Paper is not just a material for everyday use; it can take on an endless variety of forms and appeal to all our senses. Through my classes, I’d like to share the experience I’ve gained working with this material, as well as the joy that shaping it can bring us.