Decorative Techniques online workshop.

This workshop is not currently scheduled, but it could be in the future. Please contact me if you are interested.

Gain competence with a variety of decorative techniques for use on leather bindings. These techniques require minimal equipment and modest leatherworking skill, and some can also be applied to cloth or paper. Six half-day sessions.

• Onlay techniques: traditional onlay, feathered onlay, backpared onlay, computer-designed onlay shapes

• Inlay Techniques: traditional inlay, incised lines and shapes, inlaid leather line

• Surface alterations: Craquele, lacunose (abstract sanded leather collage), expedited lacunose with paper, sprinkling gold leaf onto leather, pochoir, sanding, laser printing on leather, laminating image on paper for use as an inlay

• Adding texture: stamping texture into leather, sculptural boards, puckered leather, wrapped leather boards

  This workshop requires a leather-paring knife and a paring surface.

  This is a fast-paced, advanced-level workshop for students experienced with traditional binding. Prerequisites: Binding Fundamentals and Leather Working for Bookbinding. Students should be making leather bindings independently, outside a workshop setting.

  Many of these techniques can also be taught individually as single-session workshops. Please inquire.

The online format is a series of live tutorials via Zoom. The tutorials are recorded and the videos are available to registered students for 90 days. Students need not be present for the live sessions. Workshop fee includes supplies and a detailed handout, which are mailed to arrive in time for the first session. Zoom links will be sent the week before class, and a tool list no later than three weeks in advance. Please check your spam filter if you have not received these messages in this timeframe.

Students outside US and Canada please contact me to discuss options for supplies.

Payment in full is due at time of registration. See FAQs for refund policy.