Dear Everyone ~
Introduction to Glueing Happiness is my newest group workshop via Zoom. It will debut on Saturday, September 4, exactly one week before Gourmet Bookful of Edible Delights begins! This is the perfect workshop to acquaint yourself with (or refine your dexterity) using glue & a glue brush. You will make not one but two noteworthy noteholders during the workshop.
To elevate your glueing comfort co-efficient, I have chosen three specialized bookbinding materials to work with: linen bookcloth, Japanese Katazome (stencil-dyed) paper & Cockerell hand-marbled paper from England. All three surfaces behave differently when glue is applied. Working with them side by side, you will experience their paper personalities while learning tips & techniques to use in your continued bookbinding projects.
The two structures you will learn to make in this workshop are a clip-book measuring
4¾ x 9 x 1⅜ and a clip-board measuring 5¾ x 8¾. Both will sport a butterfly clip that you will wrap in a complementary decorative paper. Also included in the kit are the papers to fill the butterfly clips to the brim: a stack of Hahnemuhle Bugra complete with one deckled edge, and a stack of Cat Bennett’s favourite drawing paper, trimmed for you to 5½ x 8½ (half of an 8½ x 11 sheet).
The materials I’ve chosen for this kit combine a tactile trio of colour, texture, and pattern. Each sheet of Katazome is very vintage from Aiko’s. The sheets of Cockerell hand-marbled papers I personally handpicked in Cockerell’s very own studio located in Cambridgeshire, back in the spring season of 2002. I’ve happily made hundreds of books using these papers, and it brings me joy to share them with you for your glueing pleasure in this workshop.
As the papers are in limited supply, I will mix & match each kit of materials to create a complementary colour combo. If a particular colour or pattern catches your fancy, please e me and I will do my best to accommodate your wishes. And if you’d like to order additional kits, you can.
If you were inspired to register for the upcoming Gourmet Bookful of Edible Delights via Zoom, but are feeling slightly, or even extremely, intimidated by the structure, this delightful three-ish hour workshop will absolutely help alleviate your glueing anxiety. I offer this encouragement: If you take both Introduction to Glueing Happiness and Gourmet Bookful of Edible Delights, you will receive a 15% discount on your Bookful registration.
Introduction to Glueing Happiness
Happy go glue-y, Bari