The Travelling Bookbinder

18/12/2023

Excited for all the creating, connecting and conversations ahead! The 2024 workshop schedule is up. Link in bio

18/12/2023

Hello! Here's the workshop schedule for 2024

Where's The Travelling Bookbinder teaching in 2024? Workshop schedule

29/10/2023

Make a map of where you are! Click on the link for a quick bookart project

A bookart project to ground you. Simple, quick. How to: draw a 360 degrees map. Be creative and make a folded book! A MapLove taster

28/10/2023

Feel Something, Make Something this weekend! A fabulous, necessary, allowing book by Caitlin Metz. Reviewed by The Travelling Bookbinder, with a generous discount from Golden Hare Books ♥️🖋📖✂️🤍

16/10/2023

Venice Personal Geographies: Heart full, books full. So many thanks to all who mapped and bound their journeys together.

14/10/2023

Oh Venice you’re spoiling us! The penultimate night of our Personal Geographies bookart workshop. Magic.

16/06/2023

What's an online bookart retreat like?

A short film about The Travelling Bookbinder's online Gathering Retreat. Connect and create with ink & paper lovers worldwide. Virtual class

07/06/2023

One place has opened up on Booklover’s Bath in September. Sign up for literary pleasures, copperplate calligraphy, amazing bookshops and stationery delights. Link in bio.

02/03/2023

Booklover’s Edinburgh favourite:

01/03/2023

In The People's Friend Special!

It's time for a new Special as well today, with 239 out on sale now! As usual, we have 20 fab stories to enjoy, with a chunky 8-page crime mystery to get stuck into. Elsewhere, Janey Swanson takes a look at the work of National Trails in establishing a coastal path around the whole of England. The trip of a lifetime, if you have the legs for it! Solange Hando visits the tiny historic republic of San Marino, while Douglas McPherson visits The Hovercraft Museum, where folk are ensuring this British invention is remembered. Did you ever travel on the cross-Channel hovercraft, or any others in the UK? Let us know! We've got a wee extract from Kew Gardens' new book on Britain's greatest trees, written by Tony Hall. Colonel John Blashford-Snell talks to Bill Gibb about a lifetime of adventuring and Gillian Harvey chats to The Travelling Bookbinder about taking this traditional skill and sharing her love for it around the world. We've enjoyed working on this Special, so we hope you enjoy reading it just as much!

14/02/2023

Origami paper love!

Fold an origami heart ring for Valentines, Galantines or Palantines. Paper love bling. Use maps, old books or other ephemera.

20/01/2023

The Travelling Bookbinder’s Book of the Month is Tourists by Lucy Lethbridge. In subscriber’s inboxes and on the blog soon.

17/12/2022

Make gift wrapping a pleasure instead of a chore....Instant lifetime access too!

Create your own personalised papers for extra special gift wrapping this year. Instant, lifetime access to work with Rachel Hazell - WrapLove

01/12/2022

A sweet and simple project for sending or keeping!

Festive bookart project: How to make Jewel Bauble Wishes. An opulent decoration to hang or send. Holiday crafternoon idea!

10/11/2022

From MapLove to Paris Love Letters, with The Travelling Bookbinder. Happy travels through paper and books.

23/10/2022

What people say....

Testimonials for The Travelling Bookbinder in person workshops, online classes and virtual courses in bookbinding, bookart and creativity.

23/10/2022

First LIVE MapLove session tonight!

MapLove bookart e-course, explore creative mapping by making twelve books. Discover how to describe where you are and where you want to go.

22/10/2022

MapLove begins on Monday, but paper adventurers are already exploring a bonus project and we're looking forward to the first live session on Sunday 23rd! Still time to sign up, for instant access

MapLove bookart e-course, explore creative mapping by making twelve books. Discover how to describe where you are and where you want to go.

17/09/2022

Booklover’s Bath has been bound into splendid pages. A wonderful three days, thanks to Persephone Books, George Bayntun’s bindery, Meticulous Ink, Mr. B’s and all who loved, stitched, wrote and read.

10/09/2022

Ever wanted to know where Rachel plans, reads, swims and creates? Sign up for an exclusive tour, hosted by Studio Carta :

We are thrilled to announce a new behind the-scenes studio tour! Rachel Hazell of The Travelling Bookbinder from West Coast of Scotland, UK. On Zoom Saturday, October First from 12 to 1 pm EST time Meet Rachel Hazell, aka The Travelling Bookbinder at her island home on the West Coast of Scotland, UK...

08/09/2022

Explore the language of emotions:

Mapping meaningful connections with the language of emotion. In Atlas of the Heart Brené Brown explores how words describe who & where we are.

01/09/2022

Ever thought about making your own films? This course made it possible for The Travelling Bookbinder to combine moving image and photography: Highly recommended! https://www.sarahmasonphotography.co.uk/life-in-motion-online

Life in Motion is an online course for photographers wanting to move into filmmaking

28/08/2022

Today: Preparing covers and pages on the Iona Driftwood Binding Retreat.

26/08/2022

MapLove: Delighted to announce a new e-course!

MapLove bookart e-course, explore creative mapping by making twelve books. Discover how to describe where you are and where you want to go.

27/06/2022

Guests at Bed With a View get a notebook parcel to take on their explorations of Edinburgh.

25/06/2022

Are you doing any dipping and writing this weekend? Full of anticipation for September’s workshop in Bath, at Persephone Books, and the copperplate calligraphy class with Meticulous Ink.

13/06/2022

Rather wowed that Booklover’s Edinburgh sold out in 48 hours. Thanks for your enthusiasm for letterpress, typewriters, stationery and bookbinding! Planning a Spring 23 date now…

29/05/2022

Tomorrow we’ll start making stories, exploring structures, experimenting with ideas. The BookLove ecourse will only run once this year. Registration closes on Tuesday evening.

29/05/2022

The best bookart course for makers and readers is about to begin! Sign up today: https://www.thetravellingbookbinder.com/product/booklove/

26/05/2022

DO THIS if you possibly can - it's going to be delicious and brilliant. Last few places! Wish I could be there with Prêt à Voyager

Are you ready for the next chapter? Do you ever feel like you’re stuck on auto-pilot? Encountering the same roadblocks/excuses over and over? Running in circles? Uphill? Doing all the things the gurus told you, and it doesn’t feel true to you? Playing by a set of rules that leave you exhausted a...

08/05/2022

BookLove begins 29th May! Two weeks of writing, designing and binding your own work. Three live zoom sessions (recorded.) Last chance in this format!

01/05/2022

A Book of Circles: mark-making and a simple binding. On The Travelling Bookbinder’s blog now.

30/04/2022

Book lover klaxon: This one’s for you! Review of Reading Room in subscriber’s inboxes tomorrow