I always enjoy getting ready to teach new classes. I’ve spent my two hours a day making sample books for a new class that starts next Wednesday, January 11th.
The first sample is an accordion book (I know, not a stitched binding, but these covers kept telling me they needed to be an accordion book…) where I’ve embedded photographs I took of Monet’s Roen Cathedral Series, between layers of translucent clay and blue clay to create the covers. To give the edges some age I added black ink and then silver leafed them.
Front cover:
Back cover:
The second sample is a Japanese stab binding where the covers have been made using an image transfer technique. I love this technique and it is so easy no one can believe that’s all it takes. (I’d tell you how, but then you’d have no incentive to take my class, now would you?)
Front cover: 
Back cover:
The last sample is a coptic stitch book where I’ve used a cane technique to both make an inlay for the back cover and also to create a three-dimensional frame on the front cover.
I just love the shadows in those pictures! For more examples of my work using polymer clay and other examples of techniques we’ll learn in the class, check out this post.
If you’re interested, the class runs for 10 weeks from 1-4 p.m. on Wednesday afternoons. For more details and to sign up, click this link or call 650-463-4900.
If you have questions about the class, please feel free to email me or put your questions in the comments and I’ll respond. See you next Wednesday!
~Ginger
Your work with the rape support group is wonderful – and I’m wondering what may be available out here. Biggest challenge for decades is for a judgmental — thinking one invited a masked man, while dressed very professionally conservative … Thirty years later she offered a ‘sorry’ yet still added I was not [physically] disfigured, [except for a french knife at my throat and verbally able to diffuse the intensity]….