Welcome to part 2 (if you haven’t read part 1 you can read it here) where I show you a look at my second entry for the Canadian Bookbinders & Book Artists Guild’s Kindred Spirits Exhibition! To learn more about the exhibition visit their website here. It was my second entry that I had serious… Continue reading Behind the Scenes: The Making of My Kindred Spirit Submissions (part 2)
This summer, in August, I took part in a paste paper workshop. And while I intended to blog about it, I ended up forgetting to! So here is my very late blog post on it. It won’t be very long, it’s mostly just pictures. What is paste paper? Paste paper is the process of decorating… Continue reading Paste Papers Workshop (August 2018)
Over the last few Saturdays of May, I’ve been taking an introductory workshop to linocut. This introductory course was getting us familiar with the process. By the end of the course we would design, carve, and print our own bookplate (or whatever we desired). I took this course through CBBAG with Dan Mezza. What is linocut?… Continue reading Introduction to Linocut – workshop
Wayzgoose, historically, was “an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew’s Day (24 August). It marked the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Later, the word came to refer to an annual outing and dinner for the staff of a printing works or… Continue reading Wayzgoose & Little Notebooks
I love making books, and I don’t mind making blank books but there is something about binding a text block that contains a story. One of my hobbies, aside from bookbinding, is writing and I have many friends who are writers themselves. As shown in a previous blog post I bound one friend’s first completed… Continue reading Project Gutenberg: Digital Library
One of the last workshops I took in summer was a European Marbling workshop taught by Nancy French for the local CBBAG chapter. Her website is here: http://www.lindenleapaper.ca/ Nancy uses acrylics for her colors and so that is what we used during the workshop. It was a very basic introduction to the art. First, we got… Continue reading European Marbling Workshop with Nancy French
There is so much we learned in this course that it’s hard to know where to start, even just to give everyone an overview! I took this course earlier this summer (we had to take advantage of the sunshine months), and it was very informative. Once again, I took the course through CBBAG and taught… Continue reading Paper Treatment & Repair
Recently I’ve been asked to make miniature books for a local University. They would like to have their University initials on the front over. I agreed and was talking to Dan about it and he’s been very helpful in teaching me several things, to give me a few options for how I would like to… Continue reading Paste Paper & Stamps
During my last semester of school in the summer I was able to help organize and attend a talk given by Dan Mezza to the Association of Canadian Archives (ACA) Student Chapter at my university. Dan came to speak to us about paper. Before Dan became a bookbinder he was a paper maker and he’s… Continue reading Paper Workshop with Dan Mezza
Arielle's Bindery 