Maki-mono

(Japanese Scroll Making)

This is an intensive two-day workshop learning the traditional Japanese art of scroll making. This structure is the oldest form of book in Japan, combining washi (mulberry paper), nori (rice paste) and cloth. Over the two days you will learn the techniques of backing cloth with paper to create book cloth using the ura uchi method, alongside the skills to attach sections of paper or prints together to create invisible, seamless pages stretching for meters, bound with silk ribbon. The materials used for the scroll are all archival and sourced in Japan. The traditional processes taught on this workshop will allow you to use these skills in contemporary book arts projects.

You can expect to leave the workshop with a beautiful cloth bound scroll with lacquered wooden ends containing several meters of mulberry paper pages and the skills and confidence to make more scrolls in the future at home. This course is ideally suited to those with some book making experience, however all the basic methods of Japanese binding will be covered.

COURSE DATES FOR 2024/25

A 3-day workshop in maki-mono (Japanese hand scrolls) at West Dean’s Bloomsbury campus in London, is scheduled from Saturday 8th - Monday 10th February 2025.