Book Arts: Making a Cloth-covered portfolio by Hand

In this hands-on one-day workshop you'll create a beautiful and useful portfolio. Choosing from a variety of durable, decorative cotton fabrics you will create a portfolio with a book cloth spine, vellum pocket to hold loose papers, soft flaps to hold a standard-size pad of paper and optional elastic closure if you wish. We'll use archival glue, heat-set and dry-mount adhesives and harmonizing lining papers. Each portfolio is unique, limited only by your imagination. You'll learn basic bookbinding techniques for gluing, cutting materials and constructing neat corners. We'll combine traditional methods and materials and add some new twists to make it eas for you to continue making gorgeous portfolios at home and apply what you learn to other bookbinding projects. All skill levels are welcome. Materials fee ($25) covers: Cotton fabric, papers for liners and flaps, archival glue, book board, book cloth, heat-set bonding material, dry-mount paper adhesive, vellum for pocket and elastic. Participants will provide: scissors, 12-inch metal ruler, self-healing cutting mat (approximately 12"x 18"), craft knife, soft lead pencil. The instructors will have some tools to share with students who don't have their own. Patricia Smith, SJSU alumns, taught classes in memoirs writing, illustrated travel journaling and bookbinding for UCSC's OLLI. She is an active member of Bay Area Book Artists. Smith has studied book arts and paper decoration with Kent Manske, Elise Krupnick, Sarah Loesch, Frank and Jody Alexander at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Sally Cole, artist and instructor, taught Bookbinding: The Ancient Art of Making Books by Hand for UCSC's OLLI. She has a degree in art history, graduating with honors from California State University-East Bay. She also holds certificates in graphic design and leadership. Cole has continued her art experience by taking classes from local book artists Elyse Krupnick and Jody Alexander of The San Francisco Center for the Book. Both Patricia Smith and Sally Cole have taught for SJSU Osher Institute. Examples of their work can be seen in their online gallery on www.BayAreaBookArtists.org