Paper & Book Camp

Paper! Old, new, all sorts. Alter papers with masking, wrapping, sewing, ink drawings, tea dying, stenciling, and combinations of all of these. Our first tea-dyed batches will focus on layering, masking, wrapping, and ink contact prints. As we wait for all the papers to cure and dry, we will sort and design with collage papers, trot out stencils and stamps, sew and make cyanotypes. After ironing the first papers and starting another round, we can build paperback books. Books can be bound or not. Pamphlet stitches, long stitches, accordion folds are all possible. After all that work, we can embellish with our new scraps and stitches.

Material fee includes: use of dying equipment and all dyes, cyanotype solution, India ink, waxed linen for book binding, an assortment of new papers and fabric scraps for altering, a piece of heavy weight watercolor paper for a cover, an assortment of cords and yarns for wrapping.