Book Binding

Last week, Ellen Kucera came and taught us about book binding. She read us an incredible book about being creative and making art and then she showed us how to bind books with stitches. Then we got to try it ourselves. Stay tuned to see what we make these incredible books into!

Ellen shows us how to use the jig.

And how to use the awl.

Folding the pages was the first step.

Venah uses the awl to poke holes in her pages.

Arie smoothes his edges with a special tool made from antler.

Then, using needles and thread, we sewed the pages together making sure to do it in the right order!