Dear Everyone ~
I am doubly delighted to announce two workshops via group Zoom: Collector’s Album and Long-stitch-link-stitch Binding with Hand-folded Envelopes. My inspiration for these workshops is the charm and surprise of using hand-folded envelopes bound into a beautiful book structure. The binding styles I’ve chosen for both workshops open perfectly flat, so you can access your envelopes’ contents with ease. These elegant envelopes are perfect for organizing photos, cataloguing seeds for your spring garden, filing ephemera, or other frilly bits that come your way.
Collector’s Album is a two-part workshop, and you will learn to make your album using the multi-needle Coptic-stitch. Your “pages” are actually 7 elegant hand-folded envelopes. The album measures 5½ x 7½ x 1. To fold your envelopes, you will master my “paper sandwich” technique for making a lightish-weight paper more sturdy. You will also hand-fold your envelopes without a template (which, might we add, is an incredibly handy skill). We will make one complete album during the workshops, and you'll have all the materials to make a second book on your own at your leisure.
The papers I’ve selected for this kit are a full array of wondrous Wanderlust Papers—seven different designs in total, so one for each envelope. You will decide in what sequence you’d like to bind them in. Your cover paper will be one of the designs, chosen from three palettes: Navy Stars & Pink Gingham, Blue Flora & Pink Flora, or Blue Gingham & Green Flora.
Long-stitch-link-stitch Binding with Hand-folded Envelopes is a two-part workshop as well. You will make a beautiful (and useful) ephemera album or travel diary. Actually you will make one in the workshop and one on your own thereafter, using materials provided in your kit. Both albums measure 5½ x 7½ x 1¼, with 12 pages (24 serendipitous sides) and a pair of bound-in hand-folded envelopes with string-and-button closure. You will learn how to hinge two separate bookboards to create a soft fabric spine that you will stitch through.
The papers I’ve selected for this kit are the endlessly satisfying, ultimately mix & matchable Peggy Angus patterned papers, plus Japanese bookcloth. The kit includes 1 full box (24 sheets, 3 each of 8 designs), and two complementary bookcloths for your spine and interior panels.
As always, I will live record all workshop sessions, and these will be available to you later the same afternoon to watch and rewatch at your leisure. No previous bookbinding experience is necessary; a bit of glueing experience is a plus. You will have ample time during each step to ask questions while we work. If you have any questions now, please feel free to call or e me to discuss!
Collector’s Album
Long-stitch-link-stitch binding with Hand-folded Envelopes
Zooming through winter, Bari
PS:
Happy Glue Year!
Exquisite glue brushes from England have arrived. I’ve been glueing with these brushes since I began making books over 30 years ago, and I’m thrilled to now be stocking them. They are available in three sizes, which you can see & read about in the NEW shop listing here. You could resolve to brush up your Shakespeare, or you could just treat yourself to a new glue brush to play with.
