Sensuous Silk Papers Class – 6.27.15
On Saturday, June 27, 2015, from 10:00am to 4:00pm, Northwoods Book Arts Guild is pleased to host another great workshop, this one led by our own Laurel Herbeck. Laurel is currently an art teacher in the FNSBSD. She has been a practicing Fiber Artist for over thirty...
Botanical Paper Painting – 6.6.15
Join Mary Maisch and fellow Guilders for an afternoon of outdoor painting using Liquitex acrylic spray paints and botanical specimens to create beautiful art papers for use in all your book-making projects. You will also make a fine folder from one of your painted...
Gelli-Printers Create GORGEOUS Art Papers! – 4.25.15
Participants in NBG’s “Gorgeous Gelli-Plate Papers” at The Folk School Fairbanks on Saturday, April 25, left with their arms full of beautiful papers ready to cover books, appear inside books, and embellish books and notecards!
Mountains & Valleys Book: A Stitched Concertina Structure – 4.25.15
Learn how to make a hand-sewn book using the Japanese pamphlet stitch in a concertina structure. We will make a beautiful cover and binding from prepared painted Strathmore papers, and cut or tear fine Hahnemuhle papers for the stitched folios inside the book. This is...
GORGEOUS Gelli-Printed Papers! – 5.2.15
Sign up now for a new Guild class offering led by Mary Maisch at The Folk School Fairbanks on May 2, 2015, from 12:00-4:00pm! Play with gelli plates, stencils, string, leaves, and other pattern-making materials as you cover papers with layers of acrylic painted...
Make a Book! Make a Box! – 5.5.15
Make a lovely Mothers’ Day card, make a secret password book using the Japanese pamphlet stitch, and make a variety of small gift boxes, all using the gorgeous Gelli printed papers you made in a previous class. Bring at least three of your papers and a pair of...
Paper Marbling with Corlis Taylor – 3.28.15
The third in our series of Guild Workshops, on March 28, 2015, brings an opportunity for Guild members to learn about and practice the art of paper marbling. Marbling is a technique that involves using absorbent papers to pick up paint from a water bath. Participants...
Wintermester Features Drum Binding Technique
Fifteen Northwoods Book Arts Guild members (and one soon to be, we hope!) attended UAF’s 2015 Wintermester course entitled “Drum Leaf Bindings.” This course was led by our own Margo Klass, who was re-introduced to the technique in a Santa Fe book...
Exciting December Workshop Opportunity – 12.13.14
Karen Stomberg will be presenting, “Mixed-Media Paper Embellishing AND a Tour of Orcha, India” at The Folk School Fairbanks, on December 13, 2014. The class will meet from 10:00am to 4:00pm. This workshop is an invitation to visit “The Hand Made Paper Unit”, a rag papermaking cooperative in Orcha, India, through Karen’s photos and samples–then make mixed-media embellished papers with some tools and materials from Orcha.