These listings are chronological, so scroll down to see earlier classes.

Saturday, January 27, 2007. 10am-5pm.
Workshop: Books from Found Objects: The Ukulele Book
San Francisco Center for the Book (www.sfcb.org)

Make a book out of a real ukulele. In this workshop we will explore how to make books from "found objects" as described in Peter and Donna's book, More Making Books by Hand. Materials fee includes the ukulele (Peter says he’ll even teach you to play the thing -- what a deal). Bring your own found objects to class, and we’ll discuss ways to use them to make a book (we’ll work on those books too if time allows).

November 4-5, 2006. Santa Fe.
As the old proverb says: “Good things come in small packages.” This 2-day workshop will explore the exciting world of miniature artist books. Noted miniature book artist Peter Thomas will instruct participants in making four innovative miniature book structures (developed by Peter and his wife Donna).
Day 1 we will make the Nested Accordion Pop-up Book and the Dowel Hinge Spine Accordion Book (or the Woven Spine book). On day 2 we will create the Scrolling book and the Dowel Spine Portfolio. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from one of the best!
Cost: $100, plus $20 material fee Limit: 12 people

August 27 - September 2, 2006
Peter Thomas will be teaching a class, "Make paper Make books" at Penland School of Crafts, Post Office Box 37, Penland NC 28765-0037. Phone: 828.765.2359 ; fax: 828.765.7389; email office@penland.org
In this session Peter will share everything he knows about handmade paper and innovative book structures. Each day, students will make decorative and text-quality sheets of paper and a small-scale book using that paper. We will also allocate time to putting text and images in the books.

June 1-3, 2006. Peter will be giving demonstrations and leading two workshops in making the "Nested Accordion Pop-up book at the fourth Helen Warren DeGolyer Exhibition and Award for American Bookbinding, Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University. For information contact Lisa Kozlowski <lkozlows@mail.smu.edu>

March 12, 2006. The Scrolling Book. 9 am - 4 pm hosted by the North Redwoods Book Arts Guild. Cost $50. Class to be held at Harry Griffith Hall 119 at Humbodt State University in Arcata California.

March 11, 2006. The Flap Book. 9 am - 4 pm hosted by the North Redwoods Book Arts Guild. Cost $50. Class to be held at Harry Griffith Hall 119 at Humbodt State University in Arcata California.

The Doweled Spine Book
November 12, 2005 at the San Francisco Center for the Book
$95 plus $15 materials fee
There's no better way to learn a new structure than from the person who invented it! Participans tackle a doweled spine book, the most complex structrure for the More Making Books by Hand by Peter and Donna Thomas. (Don't miss the free reception for the Thomases' book, November 11)

The San Francisco Center for the Book.
300 De Haro St, San Francisco, CA 94103
phone: 415-565-0545

Make a book from a ukulele
October 25, 2005 at the Cerritos Public Library
Peter and Donna Thomas' Ukulele Book Series will be on display at the Cerritos Public Library in Cerritos California. Each book is made using a real ukulele, some of Peter's hand made paper and a lot of sweat. The exhibit will open on October 1 2005 in conjunction with the Cerritos Ukulele Festival. On October 25 Peter Thomas will give a gallery talk and will lead a workshop at the library making an accordion book out of a real ukulele. Participants will learn to make a book and to also to play a uke. What a deal. For further information about the Cerritos Public Library (which by the way is listed as one of the top five public libraries in the country, featuring a conference center, aquarium and rotating exhibit of artist books.)

EXPLORING THE BOOK
July 26-29, 2005
The Emily Carr Institute of Art, Design and Media
Vancouber, BC, Canada www.eciad.ca
In this four-day workshop, you will expand your bookbinding skills and explore putting text on the page using the facilities of letterpress room at Emily Carr. Each day you will make a book using one of the innovative bookbinding structures found in the Thomas' book, More Making Books by Hand. Classes will begin with basic bookbinding instruction and a discussion of book arts concepts and techniques, to be followed by bookmaking. In the afternoons you will further explore the day's binding structure, adding text and illustration/image, or creating additional examples. One of these books will be the dowel spine portfolio binding and the class will print the pages using the letterpress equipment.

EXPLORING THE BOOK: Innovative Structures:
The doweled flap book and the dowel spine non-adhesive portfolio
June 5, 2005. Cincinnatti Book Arts Society. Contact www.cincinnatibookarts.org
This six hour workshop will explore the exciting world of the artists' books. Participants will be given instruction in basic bookarts techniques as required and will make a miniature book with a unique and innovative "stick structure" binding created by Peter and Donna Thomas. This will be a doweled flap book which they have used in their editions of Forty, Paradise, and their artist book Connoisseur. Advanced students may have some time to put text in thier books and might want to come prepared with a short 4-10 word quote to work with. The class will also be given necessary instruction in non-adhesive binding techniques and construct another book structure developed by the Thomases: a dowel spine non-adhesive portfolio binding. If time still remains, Instructors will show the group about 50 miniature books made over the last 3 centuries, and talk a bit about the history of the artists' book. All materials will be provided including Peter's handmade paper and various soft and hardwoods. This will be fun and informative workshop
Cincinnatti Book Arts Society
www.cincinnatibookarts.org

MINIATURE PORTFOLIO
with Peter Thomas
One day session: 10:00AM-4:00PM
Tuesday, April 12
$115 plus materials fee $10
Description: Using the short text of a local poet, print a miniature series of typeset words on small, handmade rag paper. Play with design and composition using colorful inks applied with a brayer, and by making adjustments of type directly on the press bed. Experiment with a variety of hand printing techniques on the letterpress. Then create a non-adhesive portfolio binding to hold the 3" by 2" prints, one of the project books from More Making Books by Hand

To be held at Studio on the Square - 32 Union Square East, Studio 310, New York, NY
Phone: Mindy: 917-412-4134 - www.StudioOnTheSq.com

Center for the Book, New York-April 11, 2005. Monday night, 6 - 9pm.
NEW! Innovative Miniature Book Structures
Students will make the nested accordion pap-up fold book structure, taken from the Thomas's book "More Making Books By Hand" published in November 2004 by Rockport Publishers. This class will teach basic bookbinding skills while introducing participants to a new and innovative book structure, which has been developed by the instructor.

June 28- July 2, 2004 A week long workshop
Exploring the book arts: Innovative Structures and Iintegrated Text
The Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee
615-597-6803

June 13-29, 2004. A week long workshop at Naropa's Summer Writing Program
Exploring the Book.
Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder, Colorado
303-546-5290

March 1-5, 2004. MTSU Honors College, The Visiting Artist's Seminar
The Literary Book as a Work of Art.
Middle Tennessee University. Murphreesboro, Tennessee.
615-898-2887

January 25, 2004 Sunday, 10-5
Innovations in Miniature Books: The Doweled Flap Book
The San Francisco Center for the Book
415-565-0540

January 21, 28, 2004. Wednesday Evening Classes 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Bookbinding for the Artist
T he Santa Cruz Art League, 536 Broadway. 246-5787.

Nov 5-6, 2003
Wednesday and Thursday nights, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Exploring the Miniature Book: Innovative Structures (two projects:scrolling book and fly-away-accordion.
Rand, 1700 Main St. Santa Monica, CA 90401. Contact Donna Lee: 310-393-0411. dlee@rand.org

Sunday, November 2, 10am-5pm
Exploring the Miniature Book
San Francisco Center for the Book
415-565-0540

Oct. 8 - 9, Two evenings; Wed. & Thurs, 7 pm - 10 pm
Exploring the Miniature Book: Innovative Structures
Instructor: Peter Thomas
Location: CBBAG Bindery, 60 Atlantic Ave., Suite 112, Toronto, Ontario
Maximum 12 students
This six hour workshop, over two evenings, will explore the exciting world of miniature books. The instructor will show the group about 50 miniature books made in the last three centuries, and explain a bit about the history of the miniature book. Participants will then make two miniature books using a unique and innovative "stick structure" binding created by Peter and Donna Thomas: the doweled flap book; and a dowel hinged non-adhesive paper folder binding. All materials will be provided including handmade paper and various soft and hardwoods. This will be a fun and informative workshop. To illustrate and add text to your books, bring scraps of paper, paints and pens, also images and small objects to collage.
Course fee: $90 members/$135 non-members
Materials fee: $25.00 payable to instructor

Saturday: 20 September 2003
A Scroll Book Workshop
Continental Breakfast & Registration: 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Lunch on your own —
Artist’s books and alternative book structures are challenging the imagination of creative publishers. Work with Peter Thomas, a leading figure in the world of miniature books and alternative structures, to create a scroll book — printing a text and establishing its structure in a form at once ancient and innovative.

THE KING LIBRARY PRESS
University of Kentucky Libraries
Lexington, KY 40506-0039
Friday, 19 September 2003, 7:30 P.M.
The Peal Gallery, Department of Special Collections
M. I. King Library, University of Kentucky
Printing Miniature Books
Peter Thomas
— Free and Open to All —
PETER THOMAS — printer, designer, binder, papermaker — makes beautiful books, some of them on such bookish topics as papermaking, including studies of papermaking in England and Sweden. Others are wonderfully creative products of an inventive mind, books in alternative structures. He carries books in a ukulele case, but he can make books that look like ukuleles — or accordions or concertinos. And who’s at the top of the list for publishers of miniature books on The Miniature Book Society’s homepage?