Keep your metal edges ready for travel in a handcrafted casement. The edges fit nicely into a protective well that is enclosed in sturdy Khadi paper, personalized with a panel of decorative paper, and bound with a tie-closure.
Elevate your favorite quotes to a new level! Try your hand at new calligraphic styles – including flourishes, borders, and decorated initials. Then create a handy half-size file folder to hold your collection of lettering samples and handouts to inspire future projects.
Create an everyday journal using specialty folders and a variety of unique and interesting papers. We will design our covers, make the folios using a variety of papers, sew it all together and finish with beads.
Join the The Folk School Fairbanks and Northwoods Book Arts Guild for a Joyful Spring Open House! We are celebrating spring with food, demonstrations, activities indoors and out, and a grand Silent Auction Fundraiser featuring beautifully hand-crafted and artful objects perfect for you, your friends, and your home!
Create your own Word Bird, a paper machè character with something to say! Using newspaper, masking tape, wire, colored tissue paper, bits of map or old book pages, and a few feathers, you will create a bird ready to stand or hang, just in time for spring migration!
Looking for a few new ways to fill your beautifully handmade books? We will focus on creating lettering styles, pleasing texts and images with color, inspirational messages, poems etc.
Basic Blank Journals for Beginners is a class for folks interested in making a hand-sewn blank journal with a few pockets. This class is for adults and is also a family-friendly class for adults and kids (ages 8-12) who want to work together to make some journals.
Join us for the Thursday March 24, 2016 NBG Guild Meeting from 5-7pm at the Blue Room in Pioneer Park!
This meeting’s program features “Fabulous Folds” and “Recycled, Repurposed” book exchange. We are all collectors of clever ways to transform pieces of paper into clever, structural forms. Our March meeting will add four terrific folds to your repertoire.
