Resources for Humboldt County Book Artists

LOCAL STORES

ARCATA

The Art Center, 823 H Street: Art and book art supplies; large sheets of decorative, printmaking, drawing, and watercolor papers.
All Under Heaven, 735 8th Street: Calligraphy supplies, inks, and beautiful rolls of paper from Asia.
Solutions, 858 G Street: Letter sized papers such as cigar, mango, and elephant poo!
SCRAP, 101 H Street : Recycled art supplies, mat and museum board, and embellishments for books.
Humboldt State University Bookstore. It’s the only place I found Bond paper for backing my handmade book cloth. They have many other items.
Heart Bead, 830 G Street: Lots of beads and embellishments for books.
The Sanctuary, 1301 J Street: In an attempt to make artistry more accessible to the general public, the Sanctuary provides essential resources that would not otherwise be available to artists and makers with limited space, tools, or knowledge. They have a printmaking lab with presses and type.

EUREKA

Ellis Engineering, 401 5th Street: Art and book art supplies, quality papers.
Just My Type Letterpress Paperie: Everything you need for linocuts, calligraphy, drawing, and inspiration.
Scrapper’s Edge, 728 4th Street: Embellishments for books, bookbinding supplies, scrapbook supplies, classes.
Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store, 510 Harris: crafting supplies.
Michaels Arts & Crafts, 800 West Harris: crafting supplies.

ONLINE RESOURCES:

TUTORIALS:

SUPPLIES:

Hollanders: Beautiful papers, book arts supplies.
Dick Blick: Arts supplies, printmaking supplies, papers.
Volcano Arts: Sewing threads, needles, Japanese screw punches, supplies for metal work, classes.
John Neal Bookseller: Book binding, calligraphy supplies.
Talas: Bookbinding supplies.
Colophon Book Arts Supply: Bookbinding supplies.

GUILDS: (all provide workshops):

North Redwoods Book Arts Guild: (Eureka) Meets monthly and provides excellent workshops. Monthly book exchanges. If a member you can use their extensive lending library.
San Diego Book Arts Guild: Wonderful classes.
San Francisco Center for the Book: Wonderful classes.
OLLI Tattered Pages: (Eureka) A focus group of the Osher Life Long Institute. Meets the first Thursday of the month when OLLI is in session.

EVENTS:

Newport Paper and Book Arts Festival: (Newport Oregon) provides great workshops every April.
Focus on Book Arts: (Forest Grove, Oregon) great workshops, meets every other year. Next year – 2019.