Artists Making Books
With Rory Rhed Golden
July 13 - 18, 2025
This program begins Sunday, July 13, and ends Friday, July 18. The fees listed at right include lodging and all meals (except “Commuter”, which includes a Commuter Meal Plan). An additional sliding scale Course Fee is required. For more information on our pricing, see our Pricing page.
This workshop teaches Rory’s preferred materials and particular methods to bond papers (both hand and machine made and synthetic Tyvek) for book and art projects. Make your own book board; make stiff paper covers that are designed and customized by you; strong, pliant 2 or 3-ply mulberry paper useful for envelopes, paper boxes and other colorful containers; sturdy paper “ribbon” of various widths. You will learn techniques for collage, embedding images between translucent kozo paper, and, depending on time, how to make two-sided images, mending ripped works on paper, covering mistakes, and re-gluing papers that have de-laminated. Students in the class will leave with a new sense of how to keep bonded papers together and why materials interact the way they do. And, we will have fun the whole time!
Students will learn about mixing and using specific adhesives, tools and procedures for binding paper to paper, We will learn to use kozo (handmade mulberry paper) to mend and bond paper, mend works of art, especially perfect for collage, even making our own “cardboard” for book covers. No bubbles paper lamination!
About the Faculty

Rory Rhed Golden
Rory Golden holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. He has served as the Executive Director at The Center for Book Arts been a visiting artist - teaching, exhibiting, creating - at over 135 institutions in 25 states around the USA. Golden has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Blue Mountain Center […]
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