Slip Cases Workshop

The Printing Museum offers a workshop on the crafting of slip cases. Saturday, September 12, 12pm – 4pm.

Need a box to hold your freshly printed postcards, stationary, book, or other specialty item? Box making requires many of the same techniques as bookbinding to measure, construct, and cover, but is modified to create open structures.

In this workshop we will learn how to make cloth covered, hinged-lidded boxes. Learning how to make this simple box will give you all the knowledge you need to attempt much more complex structures.

Students will make a slip case out of sturdy book board, with a lined interior, and with an applied cover of book cloth.  Measuring for proper overlaps, application of adhesive, and application of bookcloth will be addressed. Students will learn the sequence of cuts and paste-downs necessary to create neat and well-tailored corners.  Once these techniques are learned, they can be applied to the construction of complex clamshell boxes.

Instructor: John-Michael Perkins