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Thursday
Daniel Essig
Tools by Hand
Create a set of handcrafted tools to both make and fill journals. Weather permitting we will collect dried branches to make a bookbinding awl. We will hone natural bone to craft a folder to score, fold and burnish paper. In the Afternoon combining bamboo, feathers and natural bristles we will create a pair of mark making instruments; a quill and brush. The pleasure of making and filling journals is greatly enhanced by using handmade tools. And using a tool you yourself have made to fit your own hand can be an art form in itself.
Kit Fee $10
Supply List
- Exacto and/or Utility knife
- Set of small metal files. www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=40207 or the like.
- dremel drill-battery powered types are best
Kit Fee $10 includes: - Sand paper
- Wood, bone, bamboo, feathers.
- Awl tips
- Linen thread
- Wax
- Epoxy
Daniel Essig is a studio artist and workshop leader living in Asheville, North Carolina. Daniel teaches book arts workshops at book centers, craft schools and colleges. He is a recipient of the North Carolina Artist Fellowship Grant. Dan exhibits his work nationally and is in numerous private and public collections. Recently his work has been collected by the Smithsonian Renwick Museum and The Charlotte Smith Collection of Miniature Books at the University of Iowa Libraries. Many of Daniel’s sculptural pieces are featured in The Penland Book of Handmade Books.
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