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 In the spirit of exploring further one of our topics from last year - "art beyond the walls" - I took a fascinating bookbinding class at the Tennessee State Museum at the end of January. The instructor was a gifted, renown, local bookbinder - Mary Louise Sullivan from crowinghensbindery https://www.crowinghensbindery.com/.  She overestimated how much a class could accomplish in a day. Our workshop was scheduled to go from 9am-4pm, but even though we got the museum's approval to stick around until 5pm, we were only able to do 90% of the binding.

Nevertheless, it was super fun and inspirational.  And luckily I was able to find a book on the subject, so perhaps I'll manage to finish my first book someday.

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And an example of a simple book we could have made.....

(the small yellow notebook)

Our books were to have pockets and a pencil holder, as well as a clasp

......you can also see the edges of the six signatures we bound into the book

You can see here the gorgeous endpapers.

Here's the book I actually can recommend, which might help me complete the project.