Inventive
Itajime Paper List of Supplies for participants to
bring
Susan Kristoferson © 2013
Scissors, straight edge or ruler, sharp
utility or mat knife/rotary cutter, cutting mat, bone folder
Sensible shoes for standing and
spilling on, apron, hand
towel, scrubbie-type sponge
Two, small, disposable plastic food
containers with lids e.g., cottage cheese, a plastic spoon, small bucket, a
work towel.
Tight-felted WOOL blanket e.g., an old
army blanket OR a piece of WOOL felt from a fabric store or a WOOL paper making
felt, OR an acrylic or polar fleece type cloth --sized from 3x4 feet squared up
to the size of a twin blanket-may get stained
A few small “blister pack” covers - the
light weight, usually clear plastic, covers on top of packs of screws or paper
clips etc, (these become tiny disposable dye trays that can be cut down to have
short walls).
Glue stick, archival glue, or white
glue and glue brush, a little “stitch witchery” (fusible bonding film that can
be ironed for attachment).
A few pairs of each as clamping blocks:
Disposable plastic or bamboo chop sticks, or dowels, popsicle sticks, 1” to 3”
wide aluminum washers or other pairs of little hard flat (or nearly flat)
shapes, one side of a plastic milk jug (an
empty generic plastic milk jug,), the top of a clear, stiff,
deli take-out container, a small scrap of foam core board (both the archival
cotton surface or the slippery paper surface work well and differently), 1 or 2
paint mixing sticks.
A small, soft, round water color type
paint brush, an eye dropper, a disposable plastic spoon.
Clamping tools: a few small and large
paper clips, spring clothes pins, bull dog clips, a small hand-full of various
rubber bands, small C clamps—bring what you already have.
Your Personal Stash of things to make
marks, colors and collage with such as: pencils, colored pencils,
pastels, water colors, acrylics, gouache, small treasures such as beads,
buttons, bits of special solid and/or decorative papers, bits of sheer fabrics
such as gauze and chiffon. Don’t bring it all, just a couple of your
favorites.
Two to three pairs of tight fitting
Nitrile gloves (no latex)
Bring examples of your work to show and
share with the group. Be prepared to quickly explain during an
introductory period what you want to learn or get from this workshop and how
you imagine being able to use the workshop information. This will help me
to orient the class to your needs.
Optional:
Everyone does not need bring optional items; but it helps if some of you
do. We will be sharing tools and supplies. If you already have some
of these and it’s easy to bring along, please do; our experiences will be that
much broader and richer because of your contributions.
Dyes or inks that you already have and
want to experiment with, such as: calligraphy inks, hand-made inks such as
walnut ink, India ink, and washfast + lightfast inks that are super finely
ground such as FW acrylic inks, Bombay colored India inks, and the variety of
Higgins calligraphy inks that are specifically both washfast and lightfast.
Water color “wetters”-an art product
that changes the surface tension of water colors, or suminagashi sumifactant,
or photo-flo
Any papers, including hand-made papers
that you have and want to experiment with--they need to be a “water leaf” type
paper. This means that they need to readily and quickly absorb water as paper
towels and toilet paper absorb. The papers need to have “good wet
strength.” This means that they can be picked up wet and can retain their
characteristics of being a sheet of paper (as opposed to a lump of wet mush on
the floor.) We can also work with tracing papers and vellums, coffee
filter and tea bag papers, and the new synthetic “papers” that are non-woven
interfacing that isnow available as ‘decorative papers’.
A small scraps of Plexi-glass or
similar material, a plastic cutting knife.
Sewing machine, with needles and
threads; a couple would be helpful in the classroom, an iron—for day two
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