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
This book has paper dowels attaching
the concertina hinges. It's hard cover makes it a durable versatile book.
Soft Covered Concertina with Pockets
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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.
Contact Barb if you are interested.