Nag Hammadi Codices Workshop with Julia Miller

We have the workshop week every year in our program here at UArts. This year the workshop was taught by Julia Miller, a book conservator and a book artist, and Pati Scobey, a printmaker and a book artist. We got to chose which workshop to take for these two days, and I chose the book binding workshop with Julia.
She showed us many of her models of the historical Nag Hammadi codices, which she has been studying for years. In this workshop, we followed the structure of the Codex VI - that's how they distinguish each of this particular historical books.
We learned the different ways of decorating the leather, simple, but so intriguing - she showed us how to do the blind tooling and use the paste wax. She went through each parts of the book with details and historical references, and they were so fascinating. After a while, even though this was my first time working with the leather, I felt pretty comfortable handling this material and want to try more. It was a perfect way to dive into the world of leather.