Bacchus Editions Open-Book/Make-a-Book Lab
Bacchus Editions Open-Book/Make-a-Book Lab
Instructor: Derek Bacchus
Dates: 2nd Fridays in June, July & August 2026
June 12, July 10 & August 14
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Fee: $40 pre-registered/ $50 drop in. All materials (and use of tools) included
Have you ever wanted to learn about bookbinding but didn’t know where to start? How about not spending too much either? Well here’s your chance…a drop-in book lab where you can discover – and make – three different kinds of book structures over three months (or just one). Show up when it begins at 6:00 and by 8:00 you ARE a bookbinder.
Choose either a Japanese stab-sewn book, or a single-signature multi-hole sewn book, or learn the essential secret to making accordion-fold books. Bring your own cover weight decorative papers and let’s go! Offered once in June, July, and August — and if you love the process, come back in the Fall for a full-day workshop and dive deeper into this paper, needle, thread (and sometimes glue) world. Your friends might not understand, but IYKYK. If they’re nice, and encourage you, they might even get a gift book out of it!
All tools and materials are provided for this workshop.
Just show up, and be quietly transformed…into a bookbinder.
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Derek Bacchus has been a publishing consultant, creative director, designer, photographer, educator, letterpress printer, and bookbinder. He was a magazine art director for a number of titles, a book publishing design director, and a publisher and chief product officer at a children’s edtech startup.
He has taught for over twenty years, including design history at Parsons School of Design and The Cooper Union (New York); 2-D Design, and Information Design at Cooper Union; and bookbinding at the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany, France. He has design degrees from Parsons School of Design, and Yale University, where he also studied Greek, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance history.
from left to right, samples of: accordion – single signature sewing – stab sewn