Mini Pencil Sketchbook Binding
with Brenda Gallagher
Apr 23 at 10am-4:30pm (We'll break for lunch)
Bind your very own miniature sketchbook with leather covers. This little gem holds your mini colored pencils and fits in your pocket! To begin, students will punch and sew suede leather covers to make slots for the mini pencils. Next we’ll fold signatures of sketchbook paper and sew into the suede spine. Perfect as a gift for the budding artist in your life!
BAL Adult Session 3: Rebind a new journal in vintage covers
with Greg Robl and Brenda Gallagher
FRI (May 9) • $120
Do you have a vintage book with a cool cover that needs a second chance at life? Joing Greg Robl and Brenda Gallagher and learn how to turn an old book into a new journal or sketchbook. Join Greg Robl and Brenda Gallagher as we take covers from a book headed to the recycling bin, and bind new signatures of fresh pages inside! Soon your vintage book will have a new purpose in protecting your very own journal. It acts as a clever disguise for secret writings as well! Students will learn how to dis-bind an old book and reinforce the old case. Most books will need to have newly created spines formed from book cloth. Then new pages will be prepared to fit the old case, a new bookblock will be sewn and cased into the vintage covers. To make sure everyone has a chance to refuel, we've scheduled a lunch break. Packing a lunch is recommended.
BAL Adult Session 3: Pressure printing on the Vandercook letterpress
with Julia Seko & Greg Robl
THU (May 22) 10am-4pm • $100
Join Julia Seko and Greg Robl in Pressure Printing is a fun method of printing on the letterpresses in our shop. It's an alternative image-making technique in which we put a type-high inked surface in the bed of the press. Participants create a low-relief collage on an acetate sheet, then layer it behind a clean sheet of paper and run both through the press over the inked block. The irregularities of the collage force some parts of the paper deeper into the ink, essentially transferring the collage images to the paper from behind. The resulting prints have a unique texture and soft quality that can be embellished with rubber stamps or used as a background for other letterpress printing techniques. Join us for a day of creative exploration!
To make sure everyone has a chance to refuel, we've scheduled a lunch break. Packing a lunch is recommended.
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BAL Adult Session 3: Letterpress Card printing
THU (June 12)
Join Julia Seko and Greg Robl in Letterpress Card Printing! No experience is required for a fun workshop in which you set type and print your own greeting cards to celebrate spring, Mother's Day, or whatever you please. Participants at all levels of letterpress experience are welcome. Enjoy this playful but exciting departure from traditional card printing in which we will print 5 x 7” cards on Crane Lettra, a cardstock that works well for letterpress. The first print run will be a simple background collage of images from our collection of vintage engravings, large letters, or other symbols. Or participants can print on cards that were previously debossed (blind stamped) with a geometric pattern on the card front. Students may hand set type and print the interior message. The second print run will be of handset type. Participants can select a typeface with which to create a short message to print on top of the background.
Each person will take home 10 cards and envelopes.
To make sure everyone has a chance to refuel, we've scheduled a lunch break. Packing a lunch is recommended.
BAL Adult Session 3: Longstitch travel journal
THU (June 19) • $140
with Gregory Robl
Limited space!
Do you journal when you travel? Join Greg Robl to make a journal for your adventures! We'll spend a day building a journal with a leather wrap-around cover (to allow for expansion with all the nifty mementos you tuck inside it). The size will be about 5 inches across and 7 inches tall - a good size for including postcards and photos. We'll be able to personalize the journal with your creative ideas such as old maps that we can cut to size for signature wrappers and/or endpapers. If you'd like to add sketch paper or watercolor paper, we can cut that to size and sew it into your journal. And we can add envelopes for ticket stubs, pockets for larger ephemera, and perhaps glassine pockets for particularly beautiful business cards you find. The registration fee covers the workshop, the leather cover, waxed linen thread, ribbon for a bookmark, paper for the pocket, the envelope, and the paper for the signatures. We'll have the option to add a ledger for tracking expenses. Participants are welcome to bring any decorative papers from home that they'd like to use for endpapers or signature covers.
To make sure everyone has a chance to refuel, we've scheduled a lunch break. Packing a lunch is recommended.
BAL Adult Session 3: Rainbow journal
SUN (June 22) • $120
with Brenda Gallagher
This colorful sketchbook is perfect for capturing summer fun. The pages are made with a rainbow of colored paper which are revealed on the exposed spine of the finished book. No experience necessary. Students will learn to fold and punch signatures, to sew with multiple colors of thread and to create an exposed spine case to show off all that interior flare! Join Brenda Gallagher for a rainbow of fun this June!
To make sure everyone has a chance to refuel, we've scheduled a lunch break. Packing a lunch is recommended.
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