Selvege Stories

with Stephanie Lee

Thoughts coil and catch, like yarn in a cat’s paw. Images flash through the mind and beg to be captured on paper, with paint, in art or with the line of thread. The practice of journaling, whether with word or imagery, catches the fragments of thought that swirl around in a dustdevil life and lay them down as evidence of a day lived – with hope, with optimism, with willingness.

The ancient art of bookmaking is redic overed in this project-focused workshop where we will create a journal space with time-worn book covers of plaster and imagery that will ho use a stack of fabric pages mixed with luscious paper pages. No ordinary fabric pages – pulpy and predictable – these will be prepared to rec eive ink, paint, drawing, water color, etc. Through the use of various mediums, we will transform the fabric pages to behave more like paper than fabric but with every bit of pattern, fiber, and texture and selvege still evident. Pages with layers that lay open and hungry to hold space for your written word, photographic story, or collection of rememberings. 

Supply list coming soon.