Handbound Leather Journal

Saturday November 21, 9:30am-12:30pm

Students will learn how to hand stitch pages into a journal cover. Six signatures composed of six pages folded in half. The leather journal will have fish leather stitched & glued on the cover. Several of the fish leathers will have been tanned using ancient ancestral techniques. We will use Tiger thread for hand stitching with harness needles. We will use leather punch with mallet to make holes in spine of cover. Students will be shown how to lock needle onto thread and stitch the pages using a very basic technique.

  • Tuition: $70 per participant

  • Apply for a Reduced-Tuition ticket

  • Materials Fee: $25

  • What to bring (optional): Bring your own sharp scissors

  • Age / Ability Level: 16+, beginner friendly.

meet your instructor

Joe Manthei has been teaching this class for the past few years in Duluth, Bemidji, Lake Elmo as well as Watertown, SD. He has been working with fish leather since 2011. He has been artisanal tanning local fish species since 2019. He is married and has 4 grown sons and 8 grandchildren. Lives in Mora Minnesota where he occasionally is called to be a substitute teacher. Follow him on IG: @fiskurjoe or FB at #fiskurleather. Visit his online website: www.fiskurleather.com.