On Our Mind: Thoughts from Mark & Michelle Dean
by Michelle Dean 05-12-2016 | 2:15PST | Comments (0)
“Writing books is better than planting vines, for he who plants a vine serves his belly, but he who writes a book serves his soul” — Alcuin (ca. 735–804), an English scholar, poet, and teacher Books have been deemed one of the most valuable kinds of art objects in the history of mankind due to […]
by Michelle Dean 04-09-2014 | 2:35PDT | Comments (2)
For centuries, artisans have been decorating papers by drawing designs in colored paste (Maurer). Paste papers are lovely way to create easy decorative papers, which may be admired on their own, incorporated into drawings or utilized in a variety of contexts such as collage, book binding, and scrapbooking. They lend themselves to a multitude of educational […]
