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It's a fall for bookbinding

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Here we go again! In just over a couple weeks we will complete the second series of beginning bookbinding classes at the Northwest Montana History Museum! Check out the current students with their hands on history—in the form of formats for a historic communications device.

Another round of bookbinding classes this way comes

We still have a few spots left in our fall session, which kicks off 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, and runs every Wednesday in October. $150 course fee with basic supplies provided ($140 for members of the Northwest Montana History Museum).  Let's go back to school together—and bind books!  Syllabus for book lab at the Northwest Montana History Museum                                6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday evenings Sept. 6 to Oct. 25                                                              Week 1  9/6/2023                              introductions and course expectations                                     review syllabus                                   survey models                                    tool discussion & preliminaries                    skills warmup: Jacob's Ladder project                                        skills warmup: paper wallet                                                                                             Week 2  9/13/2023            

Last class: finishing the sewing of the codex and showing off our oeuvres

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 On May 24, we completed the first Book Lab and celebrated making new bookbinders.

Codex makes the big windup

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 On May 17, we picked up the codex, some students' long-awaited model to do.

"Oh! So that's how you do it."

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 Single-section book secrets revealed May 10.

On to the Western-style books

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 On May 3, we turned to the single-section hardback book.

The xian zhuang is done!

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 Look at the beauties we completed April 26.