The Longstitch sewing technique makes a great travel journal. The name comes from the long running stitches that go up and down the spine. Not only does this wide spine lay open flat, the five signatures of paper inside give you plenty of room for easy sketching and writing. Our second book will feature a beautiful technique call Tacket Binding. Tacketing is an exposed binding (the thread shows) that dates from the second century A.D. This is a cool detour from the Longstitch and, with your choice of cover paper, design, and stitching materials, your Tacket bound book will be worth the trip. It’s a great way to use up smaller papers and make nice gifts at the same time! If you have something special you want to use in or on your book, be sure to pack it!
Dates: Saturday, April 23
Time: 10am-4pm
Instructor: Lee Steiner
Cost: $90 tuition + $10 materials fee
Note: Members receive a 10% discount off the price of tuition and materials. Please click here to join as a Member.
Lee Steiner has been teaching herself and others hand papermaking and the book arts for more than a dozen years and has maintained her own art business and studio for eons. Life-long domestic pursuits include not only cooking, sewing, and gardening but Making Things. She’s a papermaker, bookbinder, embellisher, writer, reader, junk picker, thrift shopper always on the lookout for old, forgotten, or funny treasures to use in her efforts to bring together the revered past and the quirky present in some paper/book/story form. Her Motto: “Why have a plain thing when you can have a decorated thing?”
- April 23, 2016
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Total spaces remaining: 2