Just in time for Christmas Jean will show you how to make 12 decorative gift boxes. Although they will all be executed in A4 size paper you can enlarge the patterns provided in order to make bigger boxes. A materials list will be sent well before the workshop. THIS IS A MEMBER ONLY WORKSHOP.

This intensive course will give you the skills to create a range of paper from recycled materials to beautiful plant-fibre paper for use in stationery, cards, printmaking and other 2D and 3D artworks.
DAY 1. Basic papermaking - this will include sheet formation, couching, pressing and drying as well as experimenting with some decorative variations.
DAY 2. Plant fibre papers - A basic introduction to the preparation, cooking and beating of plant fibres to make interesting papers from plants in your garden. Plant fibre can produce papers from semi-translucent to heavily textured.
DAY 3. Layering - Plant materials and pictorial images may be captured in paper by various methods of sandwiching and multiple layering in the forming process.
DAY 4. Embossing and texture - Unique papers will be created by low-relief embossing of a variety of materials. You will experiment using techniques in the wet to create different textures and shapes.
DAY 5. Rusting - Using iron sulphate you will experiment with some of the plant fibre and textured papers from previous weeks to obtain richly rusted colours.