Traditional and contemporary binding Creation of decorated papers

Name: Traditional and contemporary binding Creation of decorated papers
Start: 2022-09-17T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Poudrerie de Saint-Chamas

Traditional and contemporary binding workshop Creation of decorated papers

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

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0674971069 contact@papiers-sensibles.fr

carole Vacca

My favorite material is paper. Material to shape, tear, wrinkle, print, engrave… and of course to connect. I explore graphic arts such as decorated papers, cyanotypes, vegetal paper, botanical prints, engraving and I combine them with contemporary binding.
In the workshop, books, artists' books and all personal creations are linked according to traditional and contemporary binding techniques.
We also create decorated papers and manufacture stationery: notebooks, drawings, travel notebooks, photo albums, press books.
In the workshop, lamps are made from decorated papers created in the workshop. They diffuse a soft and soothing light.

About the location

Poudrerie de Saint-Chamas

rue Auguste Fabre 13250 Saint Chamas

Bouches-du-Rhône
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

The former Royal Blowing Mill of Saint-Chamas was created by Louis XIV in 1690, taking advantage of the presence of a canal feeding wheat and oil mills, on a strip of land of 1.5 hectares, on the northern edge of the pond of Berre. Nearly 300 years of activity have shaped the territory and its inhabitants, as events have marked the history of the site. From the massive reception of mobilized during the First World War (nearly 8,000 workers at the Blowing Mill while the local population reached 2500 inhabitants) to that of Cöng Binh, these Indochinese workers forcibly deported during the Second World War, the history of the place is very rich. Originally centered on the manufacture of black powder, the Saint-Chamas Blowing Mill gradually moved to the manufacture of explosives, relying on increasingly elaborate processes. In 1974, when it closed, the Poudrerie de Saint-Chamas covered nearly 140 hectares. Acquired by the Conservatoire du Littoral in 2001, it becomes a magnificent protecte