The Crafter’s Box: My duo of boxmaking workshops are now live!

Dear Everyone ~

I’m thrilled to announce that my third and fourth workshop collaborations with The Crafter’s Box (TCB), Clamshell Box with Fine Art Paper with Bari Zaki (CBWFAPWBZ) and Lidded Box with Artisan Paper with Bari Zaki (LBWAPWBZ), have just launched on the TCB site. Each digital workshop includes a link to the full instructional video plus an extensive kit of materials and tools (curated by me). Each kit includes enough materials to make one complete box. And if you’d like to make even more boxes, TCB offers an option of “add-ons,” which are additional palettes of materials without the tools.

The clamshell structure was the first boxmaking workshop I taught in the studio back in 2016, and I have since offered it many times as a live Zoom workshop. The techniques I demonstrate in the CBWFAPWBZ video will show you all the basics of covering a four-sided “tray” with almost invisible corner seams and then attaching it to a spine and cover to create a beautiful drop-spine box.

The clamshell box you will learn to make measures 4¼" x 6¼" x 2", lovely for keepsakes or jewelry, and fabulous for storing postcards. The materials in the kit are a beautiful array of Japanese Chiyogami papers and Japanese bookcloths. Each combination of materials, meaning for each box, includes two complementary patterned papers for your box tray & interior, one luscious bookcloth for the cover, and last but not least, a 6" length of Italian cotton ribbon with a metallic center stripe—for your ribbon tab—imported from Italy by my dear friend Angela Liguori of Studio Carta.

In LBWAPWBZ, you will learn to make a 3" cube box with a flat lid. The lid lifts off with a lovely wooden bead, secured with a little seed bead on top. The materials selected for this workshop are two complementary Japanese Chiyogami papers per box.

The box is charming on a desk or bureau, mantel or pillow. It makes a beautiful presentation for a key or piece of jewelry, or simply a special note. It is also perfect for small desk accessories, from erasers to washi tape and, of course, dressy paper clips.