In this workshop, you’ll create various binding styles using handmade mulberry paper, with a rustic twist – weaving a naturally beautiful twig into the spine stitching in different ways.

This journal-book makes a lovely hand-crafted gift for your favorite nature lover, or a nice journal for garden or hiking notes, or simply a splendid place to record your thoughts and dreams. 

All supplies are provided, including the twigs (unless you have a treasured twig or two of your own you'd like to use). You will also take home detailed instructional handouts to create similar books on your own.

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. 

May 2, 10am - 4pm
$125 materials included