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February, 2018 Classes at Newfield: Sign Up Now!

Sat. & Sun, Feb. 3 & 4, 9-4, Knife Making Class at Curran Homestead Village at Newfield. We're back with our popular Knife Making Classes with Frank Vivier. Make your first knife and start on the road to mastering this craft in a weekend. This is both an opportunity for beginners and intermediate level knife makers. Using propane or coal fired forges (your preference), we will cut and shape a blade and tang from spring steel. Students will use a combination of hand and power tools. We will oil quench and oven temper knives. Create hardwood handle scales and brass rivets. Students will epoxy their handles to their finished blades by the end of the class. All materials and tools provided. Tuition: $225. Pay to register, Discount for returning students. Pay to register, first come, first serve. Limited to 5. Call: (207) 205-4849,Visit: curranhomestead.org

Sat. & Sun., Feb. 3 & 4, 9AM-3PM, Beginner's Bookbinding Class. 12 hours total. At Curran Homestead Village at NEWFIELD, Red Barn Building, 70 Elm Street, Newfield, Maine. $150 Tuition, Material and tools provided. Purchase a bookbinder’s kit for an additional $30 or use our tools. Work with professional book artist, conservator, archivist, and librarian Anastasia Weigle and learn to build two classic bindings. Day One: Learn to build a classic German Case Bradel Binding with signature stitches. This beautiful book is suitable for a slim collection of poems. Day Two: Learn to build a drum-leaf binding, a book specifically designed for artists, printer, and photographers. This book opens up completely flat without a break in the gutter allowing you to display an image across two pages. The initiated will review and refine skills to gain confidence in one of the standard bookbinding constructions. Class limited to 6. Pay to Register. We can send you a Gift Certificate! (207) 205-4849, Email: rpschmick1@aol.com

Sat. & Sun., February 24 & 25, 9AM-3PM. Letterpress Printing Class at 19th Century Curran Homestead Village at Newfield, 70 Elm Street, Newfield. 12 hrs. Learn from a working, professional letterpress printer Mark Matteau of the Dunstan Press, Scarborough in our museum's circa 1890s letterpress printing shop (William Cram's Printing Shop). Learn to compose a chase of lead type using traditional methods. You will ink your press and make printings on a foot treadle or hand printing press. You will complete a number of projects that you can walk away with and share during this two days. This is a good complement to our Bookbinding Class offered on Feb. 3 & 4, and those who choose both with be given a twenty dollar discount. Opportunities for use of our printing shop during the regular season if you wish to grow as a printer. Limited to 5 students ( Ages 11 - Adult). Tuition: $125 Call to register, first come, first serve. Call: (207) 205-4849,Visit: curranhomestead.org