Category: Events

St. Agatha Lions Club Arts and Crafts Fair

This is a bit of late-breaking news, but we will have a booth at the St. Agatha Lions Club Arts and Crafts Fair Christmas Show next Sunday, November 17th 2013. This fair will be held at the St. Agatha Community

Two days of marbling

This weekend was our Rural Routes Studio Tour, during which I was demonstrating paper marbling. I spent quite a bit of time describing what I was doing, warning people to keep out of the spatter zone, and (when there were

The OCADU Book Arts Fair

On Saturday November 30th 2013, from 10am to 5pm, OCAD University will be holding its 29th annual Book Arts Fair, and the Papertrail will have a table or two selling our supplies and paper products. This fair is held annually

Heart & Hand Festival

We spent today demonstrating paper marbling at the Heart & Hand Festival at Joseph Schneider Haus, and the item featuring us (and our resident cricket) on the festival’s blog just went up yesterday. We were fortunate to have an indoor location

Heart & Hand Festival September 21st

This will be the third year we will be participating in the Heart & Hand festival at Joseph Schneider Haus on Queen Street in Kitchener. I will be demonstrating paper marbling, probably in the downstairs back room of the house

Back from Monotype University

The past ten days or so of blog silence were because I was in Terra Alta WV for Monotype University 8, and what little spare time I had rarely coincided with what few times I had Internet access. That’s me

Woo Hoo! Monotype U!

The last week of August I will be heading to the mountains of West Virginia to attend Monotype University 8. This is a week-long intensive course on the operation of the Monotype Composition caster with emphasis on composition casting. This

Photos from the Washi workshop

Today we held a washi workshop for a lady and her two daughters (and their dog Willow, who was not paying much attention to the proceedings). The lack of names in this post is not because I’m trying for anonymity,

Papermaking at the Waterloo Mini Maker Faire

Our papermaking demonstration at the Waterloo Mini Maker Faire was a great success! We set up inside the Kitchener City Hall Rotunda to be ready for the opening at 10 am on Saturday, but members of the public were already

Washi Workshop Wednesday, June 26th 2013

We will be holding an impromptu workshop on making washi (Japanese-style paper) on Wednesday, June 26th 2013 from 10am to 5pm at our store in New Dundee, and we have room for a couple more people. This will be a

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