Ex Libris Workshop: Design and Cut Your Own Bookplate is an evening session held at Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen. It is a hands-on making event rather than a display, and the focus is on handcraft: you design a personal bookplate, an Ex Libris that marks a book as yours, and then cut it yourself.
What the evening involves
- Designing your own Ex Libris, the small personal mark placed inside a book to show who owns it
- Cutting the design by hand, at a relaxed and unhurried pace
- Taking home a bookplate of your own making
The session is built around slow, absorbed work with your hands, so it suits people who enjoy quiet concentration more than a lecture or a tour. No prior experience is implied by the format, and the pace is set for making rather than racing.
Where it takes place
The workshop is held in the Festsalen, a stage within Designmuseum Danmark, one of Copenhagen's design museums. Because the museum sits in the city's historic centre, you can combine the evening with time on foot exploring the surrounding streets and the city's design-focused shops and cafés.
This workshop has been sold out, so places are limited. For details and to check whether further sessions are announced, see the museum's event page at designmuseum.dk.