Instructor: Karen C. Zukas
Format: 2 hour workshop
Date: Friday, October 11th
Time: 6:00 to 7:30
Location: 127 W. Rodney French Blvd. NB
Fee: $35.00 plus cost of endcaps. This workshop is specific to the Nantucket Lightship Cuff Bracelets. You may purchase end caps from instructor at start of workshop or you can purchase from another source. Endcaps are $20 per pair
Scrimshaw ~ End caps for Nantucket Bracelets
How cool would it be to not only make your own Nantucket Lightship Bracelet, but to Scrimshaw your own end pieces to it? We live in the land of Scrimshaw ! What better place to learn the skill ! This is a rare and specialized oportunity for you to do just that. It is an historical art form of scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. In this workshop, we will learn the basic application of pin carved scrimshaw on a resin substrate as your endcaps will be resin. The process is not difficult, however a confidence in drawing is helpful...This is not an opportunity for someone to customize a piece for you, it is where you will make your own piece. We will guide you through it with all the other students. You will begin by choosing your design, then transfering it onto the endcap. For practice, you will be doing a simple piece on small polymer oval. When we've gained confidence, we will begin a traditional piece, using designs provided for you to transfer onto your endcaps or if you have your own designs, please feel free to bring them slightly smaller than 3/4". Your bracelet cuff will be 3/4 " naturally as well. Typically scrimshaw refers to the artwork created by whalers, engraved on the by-products of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses.