Have you taken a look at the Sprouts Press workshops page lately? There’s a lot of activity going on! And the next class is this saturday at the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild here in Toronto!
It’s a fun class of dissecting old books and re-binding them into new, blank journals! It’s aptly titled: Deconstructed & Reclaimed: From discarded novel to Coptic journal, go here to see details.
While this class is full, you can still join the waitlist or take a look at the other class I’m teaching at CBBAG later in the fall; the Caterpillar Stitch! Go here to see that class (aren’t you just a bit curious??)
It ran along the west Toronto Railpath, and was led by the folks at 
After the walk, everyone emptied their bags of collected finds (there are rules to foraging responsibly on the railpath, I’ll list them below). Then we sorted them, mixing and matching with everyone else’s finds, into possible ink recipes.
In the end, I made a beautifully deep and intense black ink. It’s made from the charcoal dust of burned virginia creeper, mixed with water and gum arabic. Of course, the folks from 
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