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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.

We tackled the most traditional book binding of all: the xian zhuang (or thread-bound book)

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Our Chinese book tour of course included the classic on April 19.  

Got 'em covered

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 The books, that is. We put finishing touches on books April 12.

After spring break, book work continued

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On April 5 we covered the hudie and assembled the sutra text.

We continued work on a couple of the oldest bindings in paper (after the scroll)

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 On March 22 we covered the boards for our sutra and continued progress with the hudie (butterfly) binding.