Design Your Own Journal: 2-Day Bookbinding Workshop with Heather Pilchard

Friday, September 12, and Saturday, September 13, from 10:00 - 1:00 pm each day. All materials and Museum admission are included.

Make a book of your own design in this two-part class! Learn the fascinating Coptic binding technique, which is the oldest binding still in use today. Some advantages to this binding is that it opens 360°, making it ideal for journals, sketchbooks, and any multi-page book project. It also uses minimum glue, relying solely on thread to hold it together. 

We will make our own decorative paper in the first class for the covers of the book. Practice makes perfect, and we will prepare an extra book for students to finish at home, along with an instructional handout. Come join the fun. Heather provides all materials and necessary bookbinding tools for the workshop. If you have a specific paper you would like to use for your cover(s), please bring it to the first class.

We have scholarships! The Cape Cod Museum of Art is committed to making Art accessible to everyone in the Cape Cod Community. The Museum School Scholarship Fund provides tuition assistance to qualified, year-round Cape Cod residents ages 6 and up. Click here to apply.

Heather Pilchard is a painter, photographer, and bookbinder. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1995. She has exhibited widely in New England as well as nationally. Pilchard is a year-round resident of Eastham on Cape Cod and lives in a house just above a salt marsh. She is a volunteer with the Wellfleet Bay Audubon Society, helping to rescue cold-stunned sea turtles and monitoring diamondback terrapins during their nesting season.

Cancellation policy: CCMoA must be notified 1 week prior for refund.