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Taught by:

Rachel Hazell

Offered:

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

Experience level: All Levels

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.

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.