8 November 2025 - Ruth Brown: Creating and Using Your Own Book Cloth

A workshop with a mixture of demonstrations and practical sessions. Ruth will use her award-winning binding of The Secret Garden as a design source, and her background working with textiles, to explain how she came up with the concept for the cover and then interpreted it on to fabric. We will experiment with layering a variety of mark making techniques with everyday tools and equipment to create visual texture and patterns on fabric. Ruth will demonstrate some simple screen printing techniques and how to back fabric to make book cloth. Finally, we will use at least two different methods of making neat corners on to board. Ruth stresses: no particular artistic skills are needed to fully participate in this workshop!
 
Workshop fee £30, plus £5 for materials.

Standard tools list plus: old debit/credit/store card, a few pieces of kitchen roll, 4 small plastic pots for mixing paints, a twig, piece of cling film, mesh bag (the sort of thing that fruit comes in), a flat piece of plastic/tile, and a small roller.