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May 24, 2016

Marks, Magic & Meaning

Taught by:

Rachel Hazell

Offered:

Thursday, June 2nd - CLOSED
Friday, June 3rd - CLOSED
Saturday, June 4th - CLOSED

Experience level: All Levels

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This class will be a liberation of ink and water, making a folded book form into a vessel for your stories.

After texturising thick watercolour paper with washes, brush strokes and gestural marks, we will create a structure with

  • pockets and valleys for tiny bindings
  • envelopes
  • letters
  • origami
  • pop-ups and postcards
  • Lines of words will meander over round and through the pages
  • we will incorporate strands of exclusive Iona wool.

You don’t need any bookbinding experience; just an openness to experiment and trust the water to work its magic with swirls of ink. A series of guided exercises will deepen your confidence to produce a unique, sculptural, significant work of art.

Producing a book of your own is empowering and delightful: YOU choose the colours, scale, and each particular detail. Play with the composition of busy and spacious. Try developing your own typography.

Indulge in a combination of expressive calligraphy, creative writing, stitching, and pure paper love.

Fibre junkies: Knit or crochet your own wrap around book cover! Marks, Meaning and Magic is a transformative process from blank sheet to a magical unfolding bookart world.

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The kit fee includes:

  • Ink
  • thick watercolour paper
  • various papers
  • thread
  • needle
  • notebook
  • labels
  • envelopes
  • ephemera
  • twig brush
  • a dip pen
  • and a length of Iona wool in a special goody bag.

Kit fee: 20 USD

Materials:

  • Please bring a cutting mat, scissors, metal ruler, pencil, favourite paints/calligraphy pens/wool/rubber stamps
  • Some paper ephemera such as maps, photographs, letters and an old book to cut up.
  • Apron – optional.

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a Sunday afternoon with Toni Lipsey, Mara Licole and Gaye Glasspie

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As The SQM HQ office shutters for the next little As The SQM HQ office shutters for the next little while (back online in the New Year) feeling like some sweet, silly drifting out on a paddleboard could feel pretty good right now. 2021<---!! 
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Although Isa is currently on social media sabbatic Although Isa is currently on social media sabbatical, she WILL be with us in June! *happy dance* @poppyandgrayco #squam2021
It was such a disappointment to cancel last year ( It was such a disappointment to cancel last year (amid all the rest of 2020) so it is no small delight that we WILL be welcoming @maralicoleknits to the lake in June where she will be sharing an original shawl pattern and teaching brioche! I love her sock pattern here and the message from her launch last July about "just keep putting one foot in front of the other." Indeed. #squam2021
So thrilled TONI LIPSEY will be with us at the lak So thrilled TONI LIPSEY will be with us at the lake next Spring-- scroll through to watch her making this darling hat. Head over to @tlyarncrafts to see more of her fab videos and crochet inspiration! #squam2021
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