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Paste Paper Patterns

Tutor: Victoria Hall
Dates: 18-19 February 2012
Times: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Venue: Linton, near Cambridge
Fee: GBP125.00 (plus GBP20.00 materials payable on the day)

Paste Papers have been used to decorate book covers since the 17th century and remain suitable and popular for use in contemporary bindings. This course will equip participants with the ability confidently to produce their own custom-designed paste papers requiring only modest materials and a zest for creativity.

Victoria will bring a selection of different pastes, a variety of colouring agents and an assortment of different papers to work on, not to mention a plethora of tools with which to mark and pattern the papers. The first day will be very hands-on, as students make a sequence of A4 papers covering all the basic building-blocks of paste paper pattern making – mixing paste, applying colour, texturing, combing, blocking and tooling. More complex patterns and ‘double’ images may be created on the second day, with plenty of resource material available for inspiration. The workshop will conclude with an examination of paste papers old and new from Victoria’s collection.

By the end of the course you will be able to recognise and better understand paste papers whenever they appear in bindings old or new, and have a portfolio of original papers for your own work.

Victoria Hall makes a wide variety of hand decorated papers in her Norfolk studio and added paste papers to her range of marbled papers in the mid 1990s. She has a particular interest in historic styles, many of which she is able to recreate in facsimile, and has studied historic paper collections in libraries of Europe and the USA. Her contemporary paste paper designs have been commissioned by notable Fine Presses including Incline Press. Rampant Lions, Libanus Press, & Simon King. She has recently completed marbling the papers for the Highgrove Florilegium.