Books & Boxes

Books are an intimate artefact, a wonderful place for private creative expression in the form of creative writing, art work, photography collections or poetry.

No Sew Book
 
 

No Sew Book

This book has paper dowels attaching
the concertina hinges. It's hard cover makes it a durable versatile book.

Soft Covered Concertina with Pockets

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This is one of the books which you will make in the Two Books in One Day workshop. You will learn to decorate your pages before folding them into a concertina text block.

Secret Piano Hinge

Secret Piano Hinge
 
 

Creating this beautiful hard covered book will teach you many useful book making skills. You will learn how to make a window in the front cover, stitch sections into a concertina spine and make a piano hinge which hides your secret image or text.

Fabric Covered Book

Fabric Cover Book
 
 
Fabric Cover Book
 
 
In this workshop you will make a beautiful fabric covered book. The sections will be stitched to the concertina spine of your hard covered book.
Materials fee $5

Book in a Box

What a wonderful place this ‘Book in a Box’ will be to store special photos or memories of a special occasion. You will make and cover the box into which you will put the concertina book you fold.

Available on request for 3 or more people.

10am -3pm
$50 per session includes tuition, some materials, tea and coffee.
BYO Lunch
Contact Barb if you are interested.

Journal with Belgian Binding

Learn a new attractive binding for the hard covered book you will make in this workshop.
One day workshop

Available on request for 3 or more people.

10am -3pm
$50 per session includes tuition, some materials, tea and coffee.
BYO Lunch
Contact Barb if you are interested.

Silk Covered Book

Silk book cover
 
 

Silk paper will be made in this workshop and used to cover a beautiful book, stitched with a two-needle binding.

One day workshop

Available on request for 3 or more people.

10am -3pm
$50 per session includes tuition, some materials, tea and coffee.
BYO Lunch
Contact Barb if you are interested.

Coptic Journal

In these one day workshops we spend the morning creating a beautifully individual cover with a selection of handmade papers and decorative additions. This is then bound to the pages in the afternoon. The binding is done with an ancient Coptic stitch that adds further interest to your book and allows it to open well.

One Day Workshop
See brochure for dates

Cost $50 per session includes tuition, some materials, tea and coffee.
BYO Lunch
Contact Barb if you are interested.

Piano Hinge Binding

Piano Hinge Book
 
 

Fascinating piano Hinge Books
 
 

This unique book structure is deceptively simple and most attractive. Make a beautiful soft covered book in papers of your choice.This unique book structure is deceptively simple and most attractive. Make a beautiful soft covered book in papers of your choice.

One Day Workshop

Cost $50 per session includes tuition, some materials, tea and coffee.
BYO Lunch

Contact Barb if you are interested.

Boxes

Box
 
 

Small gift boxes
 
 

In this workshop you will learn to make a small box with a removable lid or a tray box with attached lid as pictured at the right. At the end of this exciting day you will have a box to take home and the skills to make more.

One Day Workshop

Cost $50 per session includes tuition, some materials, tea and coffee.
BYO Lunch
Contact Barb if you are interested.

Beautiful Boxes

The beautiful 17 x 12cm box you make in this workshop will be covered with papers of your choice. It will have a wrap around lid with a magnet closure.
One Day Workshop

Cost $50 per session includes tuition, some materials, tea and coffee.
BYO Lunch

Pulp to Page

100% handmade paper books.
 
 

Day one will give you papermaking skills and paper from which to make a book on day two.
11 - 3 each day
Day 1 Paper $40
Day 2 Book $40
This workshop will be offered later in the year.
Contact Barb if you are interested.

Make Your Own Gifts

More CD Books
 
 

Use those old CD's to make a beautiful little book with semi-circular pages and learn to make an Exploding Book. Both these little books make wonderful gifts.

Small Books
 
 

Contact Barb if you are interested.