San Francisco Center for the Book

Students will build a two piece, cloth-covered lift-top box from a provided template, learning the basics of constructing and covering an elegant container suitable for housing and protecting books, prints, photos, other media, or even precious objects.

Beginners are welcome since this class works with pre-cut pieces, with no custom measuring required. However, students will learn about board selection and cutting, design, and calculating custom sizes for their own future projects.

Prerequisite:
None

Tools/materials to bring:
None

About the Instructor:
Brian Lieske (he/him) wandered into SFCB many years ago and continues to haunt the place. He completed both the bookbinding and letterpress cores as well as several of the summer historic structure classes, and now teaches SFCBs Box Making Core classes. He enjoys making fully hand-sewn books and still fights to not over-tighten his kettle stitches.

He’s lived in San Francisco for more than 20 years having arrived shortly after completing an MFA at the University of Texas at Austin.