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 Paul

My name is Paul Tuttas and I am a graphic designer, visual artist, and illustrator. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in Regensburg and my Master’s degree in Illustration and Graphics at UMPRUM in Prague.

I am interested in everything that forms a book – its cover, graphic layout, illustrations, and the binding itself. In the workshop, I will share my experience with you and guide you through the process in which individual sheets of paper transform into a distinctive book created by your own hands.