Tutor Mary Noble
10am - 4pm
Lunch Provided
This one-day class is suitable for beginners and those with experience
Workshop Details
Design your own wrapping paper, labels and cards made specifically for people who appreciate the trouble you’ve taken to make their gift special. Don’t worry if you haven’t much calligraphy experience, this is a fun day to personalise Christmas or other festive occasions.
We’ll start with a brief introduction to some calligraphic techniques, using felt-tips as well as dip pens especially if you have little or no calligraphy experience – you can use your handwriting. In simple steps, we shall start with labels just playing with initials, then getting more ambitious with seasonal greeting messages or full names onto wrapping paper and build up a collection of festive paraphernalia with plenty of ideas for developing further at home.
If you feel ambitious, you can explore making simple hand-made one-off greetings cards, or for getting printed.
Skills / Techniques Covered
Materials
Students - please bring with you:
*or take turns sharing tutor’s
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.
10am - 4pm
Lunch Provided
This one-day class is suitable for beginners and those with experience
Workshop Details
Design your own wrapping paper, labels and cards made specifically for people who appreciate the trouble you’ve taken to make their gift special. Don’t worry if you haven’t much calligraphy experience, this is a fun day to personalise Christmas or other festive occasions.
We’ll start with a brief introduction to some calligraphic techniques, using felt-tips as well as dip pens especially if you have little or no calligraphy experience – you can use your handwriting. In simple steps, we shall start with labels just playing with initials, then getting more ambitious with seasonal greeting messages or full names onto wrapping paper and build up a collection of festive paraphernalia with plenty of ideas for developing further at home.
If you feel ambitious, you can explore making simple hand-made one-off greetings cards, or for getting printed.
Skills / Techniques Covered
- Brief overview of calligraphic writing
- Using edged-pen and pointed-pen felt-tips for calligraphy
- Simple ways to create labels, cards, wrapping paper and other ephemera
- Craft skills of safe cutting and assembling of paper & card items
Materials
- Materials are not included in the booking fee. Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £1 payable to the tutor during the class. The items you will need to bring with you are listed below.
Students - please bring with you:
- Any pens, conventional or otherwise, and accompanying inks, but don’t buy any – you can use the felt-tips.
- Craft knife (Xacto/ Swann-Morton/ with new blade*
- Metal-edged ruler for cutting*
- Pritt stick
- Any coloured/ gold string/ ribbon for tags if you have any
*or take turns sharing tutor’s
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.