Travelers’ Leather Journal Class 7/27
July 27 @ 9:00 am
$35.00 – $60.00
Instructor: Barbara Byrd
Time: 9am-1pm
Where: At the Gilmer Arts Gallery
Travelers Journal class suitable for kids or adults. Children, ages 8-14, should be accompanied by an adult and need to be able to follow directions:
- cut with a utility knife/box-cutter safely
- Use a hammer/mallet for stamps and punches
- Use leather dye
What Students will learn:
- Students will have the option to dye their project. There will be disposable gloves. Students should wear “art” clothes that won’t be ruined if they get a drip or splash of dye on them.
- Students will learn to create their own reusable template for a no-sew traveler’s notebook. They’ll use their template to mark, cut, and punch veg-tan leather.
- Students will learn to properly case veg-tan leather for stamping. The instructor will provide a variety of stamps (letters and numbers, textures, borders, and motifs) as well as practice leather for students to design their own personalization for their journal.
- Students will learn to bevel and burnish leather edges for a finished look and will have the option to dye their journal or leav
e it natural with a wax finish.
Each student will leave with a completed personalized 5×7” elastic bound refillable notebook of their own design and their template for use on future projects.
Instructor bio:
Barbara Byrd is the artist behind Leather On My Mind. She has dabbled in various arts and crafts all her life but when she started leather work in 2018, it ignited a passion that took over her life. In 2024, she left her corporate job to focus on her family and her leather art. She participates in arts and crafts fairs and festivals around the southeast and has taught leather workshops for homeschool groups and Blacksmiths guilds in Georgia and Alabama. She is excited to join Gilmer Arts and share her passion for functional leather art with the Ellijay community.
