Bookbinding – the Caterpillar Book
We stitche a multi-legged “creature” across the book covers and spine. It is beautiful and complex appearing, but with a logical repetitive stitch.
We stitche a multi-legged “creature” across the book covers and spine. It is beautiful and complex appearing, but with a logical repetitive stitch.
Bind the book with a uniquely movable structure and visible stitching, then build a classic slipcase to house this book.
Make beautiful handmade paper with fun and experimental ways to add interest, designs, multi-colors.
Use of the Vandercook presses for quick impressions that “capture” the patterns from cut stencils then play with handcoloring in the French pochoir technique….more stencil fun and surprises!
Learn a method of dyeing taught by Mary Dittenber for brilliant fabrics. Students will learn to create and discover the color wheel and intermixing of dyes.
Suminagashi marbling is the process of floating sumi ink on water then laying down a sheet of paper to retrieve the black and white pattern.
Harvest papermaking fibers from your garden for unique sheets with special characteristics, as we make nature inspired handmade paper.
Learn this traditional process that has stood the test of time, as an enhanced way to draw onto copper plates.
Dec 8, Sunday, 2:00 – 5:00pm $40 Join in and experience the serendipity of paper marbling. Make sheets to use for gift wrapping, special cards, or tokens. Bring along unusual papers to layer under marbling colors and patterns….old maps, book pages, handmade papers, mementos, letters.