Workshop on paste papers

GBW Potomac Chapter Workshop

"Pastepapers Old and New"
Two Day Class
Michael Burke

Explore the joys of making your own historical decorated papers,
then experiment with contemporary designs and inventive techniques.
Although known from around 1650, pastepapers were made popular in
the mid 1700s by the Moravian Sisters of Herrnhut in Saxony. Recent
study of these papers has sparked a revival of interest in them, and
in this workshop Michael will introduce you to the methods,
materials and patterns used on the original pastepapers.

We will begin by mixing the colors using natural earth pigments, and
making the few simple tools used by the Sisters. We will then
reproduce each of their original designs using the same colors,
patterns, freehand brush strokes and tooling. Part two of the class
will bring us up to date with a wide range of inventive techniques
for making modern pastepapers. Michael will show you how to make
combs, stamps, rollers and other mark-making tools used in
pastepaper design, and show a range of techniques he uses to create
many different effects, from the simple pulled papers, to the highly
regular striped patterns.

Folger Shakespeare Library
Werner Gundersheimer Conservation Laboratory
201 E Capitol St, SE
Washington DC 20003
November 6-7, 2010
9am - 5 pm
Members: $200.00 Non-members: $250.00

Please register at gbwpotomacchapter<-at->gmail<.>com and save your spot

Michael Burke

    Michael started his working life as a chemist researching the
    transformation of coal into oil. He later worked in occupational
    health with asbestos. Michael studied bookbinding with Dominic
    Riley and paper conservation with Karen Zukor. He was involved
    in establishing the bindery at the San Francisco Center for the
    Book, and edited Gold Leaf, the journal of the Hand Bookbinders
    of California.

    Michael lives in the Lake District, England, where he teaches
    bookbinding at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal and at Society
    of Bookbinders events across the UK. He has taught for diverse
    book arts groups across the USA, including Los Angeles, Seattle
    and Salt Lake City and in 2007 he taught a pastepaper workshop
    at Paper and Book Intensive in Michigan. Last year he traveled
    to Sao Paulo to teach for the Brazilian group ABER. In recent
    years Michael has been researching the structures of ancient and
    medieval bindings, and decorative papers.

    Michael is currently studying for an MA in the History of the
    Book, at the University of London. He is presenting Byzantine
    Bookbinding at this year's Guild of Bookworkers', Standards of
    Excellence Seminar.


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