Yesterday four clever artists made two books each, glueing, stitching and learning their way through the workshop day. Some used beautiful papers they brought with them and one used handmade paper. Thankyou for rising to the challenge ladies.
Category: Books
Mapping the Journey 3 Day Workshop
Mapping the Journey
Artists Book 3 Day Workshop
Books and Storage Box
Vade mecum: The Constant Companion
Vade mecum is Latin for ‘take me along’
This term applies to any gathering of pages(or book)
which is used on a daily basis and can be carried
on the person for easy reference.
Spend 3 days creating beautiful individual concertina books with attractive additions: envelopes, small books and stitched pockets will be part of your final work.
This book can be a repository for memories of trips past or those just a dream, a companion for the journey.
This wonderful three days will include:
Learning how to make your concertina journal and prepare a hard cover. You will be given many ideas for including your memorabilia. Envelopes, small books and pockets. These may be filled with your memories or remain blank for a future journey.
Making a box or slip case to house your book.
Email me with questions of you wish.
Dates: Thursday 8th & Friday 9th October, Saturday 21st November
Class Fee: $375 Materials Cost: $12
Venue: Opendrawer 1158 Toorak Rd, Camberwell VIC 3124
(03) 9889 7227
Details and registration at : opendrawer.com.au
At Last….three new workshops
TWO BOOKS IN ONE DAY
One for you and one to give away
This day will include the making of two books.
Book 1: A soft cover book with holes in the spine to accommodate the sewing.
Book 2: A case bound book with hard covers suitable for a journal of any sort. The pages will be light weight art paper suitable for writing or drawing.
Cost: $70
Materials Fee: $10
Date: Sunday 23rd August
Time: 10am – 3pm
BYO lunch, tea and coffee provided
Venue: 55 Woodhouse Grove, Box Hill North 3129
Other details provided after registration.
Email Barb at barb@barbadams.com if you wish to attend.
LET’S GET TOGETHER AND PRINT A BOOK
Have you often wondered what to include in a blank book? Have you ever wanted to make a book with prints in it?
This workshop is a good way to get started on some simple printing which can decorate a book page. We will begin the day carving a simple block from a drawing of a tree, leaf or a bird. The concertina book we make will be a display space for our prints which we will share.
At the end of the day, you will have learnt how to make:
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a concertina book in which we will display our prints
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your own ‘soft cut’ print block
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a clever hard cover, with no glue
You will take home a book of beautiful prints and a print block to use again and again.
Cost: $70
Materials Fee: $10
Date: Friday 4th September
Time: 10am – 3pm
BYO lunch, tea and coffee provided
Venue: 55 Woodhouse Grove, Box Hill North 3129
Other details provided after registration.
Email Barb at barb@barbadams.com if you wish to attend.
READY SET GO
Make a journal and start writing or drawing in it.
This workshop will include the making a journal with hard covers and sections sewn over tapes.
You will also learn some starting points for beginning to work on the pages.
Come with some ideas of how you might use your journal. Will it be a poetry book, an anthology, a travel journal, cookery book, somewhere to record the way you see the world in pictures or words?
When you have registered I will talk to you and suggest some things you may wish to bring to help you get started with your journal.
Each section will be sewn separately to accommodate later inclusions on the pages. The pages will be light weight art paper suitable for writing or drawing.
Cost: $70
Materials Fee: $10
Date: Tuesday 15th September
Time: 10am – 3pm
BYO lunch, tea and coffee provided
Venue: 55 Woodhouse Grove, Box Hill North 3129
Other details provided after registration.
Email Barb at barb@barbadams.com if you wish to attend.
A5 Coptic Journal Workshop
I am running another Coptic binding workshop and have a couple of places left. Let me know if you are interested.
Tutor: Barb Adams
Saturday 9th May
10 – 4
Box Hill North
$70 plus $6 materials fee.
Most materials provided.
BYO Lunch Tea & Coffee provided
This workshop teaches the skill of Coptic Binding which is used to stitch a hard cover A5 journal suitable for art work, note taking, writing or as a travel journal.
Details and material list provided after registration.
Mapping the Journey Workshop Show & Tell
This week the group from the ‘Mapping the Journey’ workshop in January, got together at my place to share their beautiful books. What a delight it was to see the achievements of the group.
The cake Jan brought was delicious too!!
Workshops for 2015
I really love teaching people bookmaking and paper making. Watching them discover their innate creativity as they enjoy time with a small group, learning new skills.
As usual most of my workshops arise from requests people make. This year I started with a successful 4 day workshop ‘Mapping the Journey’ and will plan some other paper making and book arts workshops at different times during the year.
Dates can be arranged for people who gather their own group of 4 people for book making and 3 people for papermaking classes. I run the classes here at my studio in Box Hill North.
Contact me if you have an idea for a workshop. I can plan the day and invite others to join us.
I will let you know when I have a workshop on offer. If you subscribe by entering your email address in the box to the left of your screen you will receive notifications.
This year’s paper
To start the year I dyed some pulp and pulled some colourful sheets for book making and other paper projects.
This paper took a little longer to make. The process involved cutting cotton jeans into 2cm pieces and beating them in a Hollander beater for several hours to make a fine pulp. The resulting strong paper is a pale blue. Some sheets have threads and pieces of fabric from the jeans to add interest.
This paper is to use for book pages in books I am making to sell at my market stall in Halls Gap on March 14th 2015.
If you are passing through or coming up for Grampians Texture call in and visit the market. Papermakers of Victoria will also have an exciting stall.
