San Francisco Center for the Book

This class will focus on developing and practicing skills and techniques needed to make leather bindings.

Students will experience the difference between abrupt and gradual paring for turn-ins. We will make corners and line boards to manage pull. Students will practice beveled and feathered paring with a knife and scalpel, and develop competence in use of Scharfix and spokeshave for paring turn-ins and reducing the overall thickness of a piece of leather. Finally, students will practice leather covering skills on plaquettes using the leather they have prepared and experience how leather preparation affects the final product.

Prerequisite:
Orientation to Leather

Materials to Bring:

• Leather paring knife from Orientation to Leather 

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