Class Description:  Painted Papers and Coptic Stitched Books with Sally Rose

Class Description: Painted Papers and Coptic Stitched Books with Sally Rose

Class | Available

All Levels
8/2/2025 (one day)
10:00 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Sat
$115.00
Member Discount Available

Class Description: Painted Papers and Coptic Stitched Books with Sally Rose

Class | Available

Create beautiful, embellished papers using inks and stains, ready to bind into a unique personal book. Foolproof results from beginner to advanced, for wet-on-wet and dry brush color application on fine papers. Learn the Coptic stitch to bind folios together.   All students will leave with their own open-flat, easy-to-sketch or write-in book.  

 All levels welcome - ages 14 +

All supplies included.

Rose, Sally
Sally Rose

Did I choose papermaking as my medium, or did it choose me? All I know, every time I cut back something in the garden, I think THAT stuff could make cool paper…

I grew up in Colorado, surrounded by family members who were handy with “making.” Dad stamped leather in a saddle shop, Mom made our clothes. Both taught the value of making do and making beautiful. I think that’s partly why I can see the potential in natural materials. Sometimes the materials are funny—not cherished as traditional art materials at all! Twigs and veggies! I use abaca and flax pulp to make paper that’s high shrinkage so I can “pulp weld” organic materials into sculptural forms.

Retired after serving as head of the fiber arts program at Central Michigan University for thirty three years, I call Mt. Pleasant home.