Create books using cover papers of your own design! You’ll learn the secrets of making paste paper, creating patterns using numerous everyday tools, like a plastic card, a bottle cap, a comb, even your fingers! 

Once dried, you’ll select from your custom designed papers to make at least two journal books you can use for note-taking, journaling or sketching, or maybe a special gift. Participants will learn different methods of stitching – 7-hole pamphlet with beads, and chain stitch.  

All supplies are provided. You will also take home detailed instructional handouts to recreate similar papers and books on your own.

Note: This workshop can get messy. Please bring an apron or smock.

About DJ Gaskin

DJ Gaskin works in mixed-media and acrylic painting, bookbinding and artist’s books. She is a member of Tryon Painters & Sculptors and Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, NC, and has exhibited paintings and book art in a variety of local venues, the Washington D.C. area, New York and elsewhere. She is a previous member of The Art League at The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Va., and other galleries in the D.C. area, where she received several awards. She has been teaching bookmaking workshops for more than ten years. DJ is also a working poet. Her poems have been featured in numerous literary journals, and her first book of poems, Of Crows & Superstitions, was published in 2018 by Main Street Rag Publishing. 

March 21, 10am - 4pm
$125 materials included