Making Paste Papers Workshop
This is a traditional bookbinder “end of day” use of wheat-starch paste with designs combed and pulled through the color paste onto paper.
This is a traditional bookbinder “end of day” use of wheat-starch paste with designs combed and pulled through the color paste onto paper.
Get “into the drawing zone” and add embellishments with collage for new layers of meaning.
We stitche a multi-legged “creature” across the book covers and spine. It is beautiful and complex appearing, but with a logical repetitive stitch.
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 this fast and fun process to layer colors and designs onto paper.
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.
Bind the book with a uniquely movable structure and visible stitching, then build a classic slipcase to house this book.