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Jim Croft Old Ways / Santa, Idaho


"Old Ways of Making Books" class with Jim Croft on his homestead in the woods of Santa, Idaho.

Books from the "Ground Up"

Time to work with Jim and Melody on traditional paper making (no machines), growing, processing and spinning flax fiber for use in book making, making 'parchment' or rawhide from deer skins to use in books, learning medieval and islamic bookbinding techniques using traditional fibers, processing animal skins to make natural leather for book making, learning to use bones to make tools and parts of books,  and more.