This workshop, based on Carmencho Arregui's Crossed Structure Binding, will develop your capacity to deal with an unusual way of thinking in a perfectly balanced asymmetry and your everyday practice will benefit of this extra understanding of books' motion.

The course is organized in two parts. During the first one, we will deal with 8 different variations of the Crossed Structure Binding, making 8 sample books with blank pages and covers in handmade paper.
Then one day of pause is planned, to rest and think about the matter.
So in the second part each participant will realize some binding on real books with the cover in leather or vellum.

The aim of the workshop is to learn the techniques but also to get able to discern which structure can better fit depending on which book has to be bound.

"In the last years Cristina Balbiano d'Aramengo has worked with me, discussing technical matters as well as finding new solutions to different problems. Out of this friendship Cristina has developed her own ideas about the Crossed Structure Binding and is now able to present the structure in a more complete and complex form. Her interest in book conservation has led her to adapting the technique to the needs of old books and heavy volumes. Such matters will be treated during this workshop."
Carmencho Arregui