2026 Preview: Dates for your diary! More details for Autumn dates will be updated here, and sent to subscribers first.

Due to personal plans (involving libraries and fountain pens) there will be far fewer workshops scheduled – five, instead of ten – so if you’d like to join a papery bookish adventure, then please don’t hesitate to sign up when you can.

January:

Booklover’s Bath – elegant calligraphy, ancient bindings, beautiful publishing. Fully booked.

February:

Fruitmarket Bookmarket – 14th – 15th February. Exhibiting and chatting all things bookart. Celebrate a bookish Valentine’s! Free to visit. Look out for info about a Travelling Bookbinder workshop on the Sunday…

March:

Shetland Text and Texture – Inspired by wool and rock, water and sky, create a set of seven books in their own slipcase. Now full.

April:

Iona Driftwood Binding Retreat – Sold out

May:

Holiday! Walking through orange groves….

June:

Teaching a part of Lotta Jansdotter’s amazing Aland retreat.

July:

Personal projects, involving paper and pen, in the Whale Bone Studio.

August:

Edinburgh/Iona for book related stuff.

September:

There may be swimming in clear waters.

October:

Venice Personal Geographies – 17th – 21st October. bookings will open to newsletter subscribers in the spring.

November:

Paris Love Letters – registration opens Spring 2026. Subscribers are first to know dates and details.

December:

Using WrapLove techniques to make parcels pretty and personal, lighting candles, reading….

Thank YOU for joining me here in 2025. Hope you have enjoyed this 2026: Preview and that paths will cross, pages will turn and many books will be bound in the year ahead!