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Japanese Punchbinding
- Gin Petty
November 14 (Friday)
10 AM – 3 PM (one hour break for lunch)
Teaching and materials fee - $70
Location –
Broadway Center, 204 N Broadway, Berea - Teaching Room
Signup limited to 12 participants
No previous experience necessary
Have you ever thought about binding
your own chapbook or journal? Or perhaps an album for pictures? It
may be easier than you thought. This Japanese bookbinding session is
suitable for beginning binders. Participants will learn several
different binding patterns and leave with several blank bound books,
printed instructions and enough materials to bind their own printed
book at home.
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www.ginpetty.com
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Gin Petty is a self-taught artist
who began carving wood at age six when her father taught her
to sharpen a knife. For over 25 years she earned her living
carving spoons and functional kitchenware as the ‘Whistlin'
Whittler.’ She is also accomplished in basketry and
papermaking. Bookbinding came about, she says, quite naturally
as a way to use that paper. "My interest lies more with
playing with the bindings than in producing the books
themselves. No matter what the field, my interest has always
been more about the process than the finished product." Recently Gin Petty's papermaking was featured in an installment of Kentucky
Life.
Video:
www.ket.org/kentuckylife/1400s/kylife1402.html
Gin Petty is a juried member of the
Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen. She regularly
demonstrates bookbinding, basketry and papermaking at the Kentucky Artisan Center
in Berea.
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