Tools and Kits Available

These tools and kits can be made to your specific needs, or supplied in bulk for classroom use or display or hands on exhibits.

Artist and Scribe kits; period inspired wooden box, inks (walnut and carbon black), watercolor paints from earth and metallic elements (prices vary by materials used quotes upon request), turned brass porte-crayon with velvet pouch, quills, turned artists brush, turned metalpoint pen (silver), reed pen, sponge, shell containers for paints, hand bound artist treatises from period sources (you may choose book titles according to your interests and needs – these need to be common/public domain sources – pre 1923 – mine favorites are usually 16th – 18th century treatises).

Booklet; About Quills (DKH), stack of primary beribboned documents, Ink (walnut and carbon black), quills, marbled paper covered book box with leather spine.

Booklet; Cutting quills and writing (DKH), stack of beribboned primary documents, Ink (walnut and carbon black – large $9.00, med $7.00), quills($2.00each), marbled paper covered book box with leather spine, (see this page for available stock) .

Tool rolls of various types, depending on craft, combinations of workshop made, and purchased tools. Various types of rolls available, pocket style, or center strap style (elastic or tape) Unlined or Lined for padding; choice of wool or cotton with batting, various outer fabrics; duck, linen or canvas. Prices vary by size and complexity.

Chasing and Repoussé tools (custom made to your specifications)

Workbench tops (clamp onto your own table) Photo shows front and back of workbench top. Aprons that hook onto the workbench (to save sweeps), engraving pads and blocks. Leather sandbags also available. (Engraving Pads are hand sewn with low profile stitching and high dome, stiff filled with sand, sandbags have a hand sewn center seam and have a looser filling of sand.)

Artist boxes: Milk/Tempera based on Pennsylvania chests 18th c to hold supplies    Left: 9.25″ x 4″ x 2.5 high ($58.00), Right: Med. 8″x 2.75″ x 1.5 high ( $,52.00) small 7″ x 2″ x 1.125″.($48.00).

Implements for Drawing, Painting, Metalpoint, Writing tools Based on 17th-18th c Gentleman’s/Gentlewoman’s writing implements. (from top: Silver metalpoint ($32.00), simple port-crayon with adjustment ring(graphite)$40.00, lathe turned brass porte-crayon with adjustment ring graphite, cotton velvet pouch $182.00, turned camel hair brushes (approx size 8-9 and 5-6 by modern standards)$12.00 each.

Sewing and tea treasures: L to R: Sterling Silver Pin ball ring (and stuffing) $158.00, Sterling Silver Engraved Chatelaine 3 chains with hooks $184.00, Sterling Silver Chatelaine, pierced, 4 chains with hooks $252.00. Sterling Silver Mote Spoons 18th c replicas with linen pouch, $268.00.

  • Standard, press, corner/box $34 – $56.
  • Scoring, marking, folding $63.00
  • Bones transformed into folders!
  • Bamboo and specialty wooden folders

Bone folders. Teflon Bone folders, and wooden, and bamboo folders of various styles please write for custom quotes.

Please visit the Contact Me page to order items or custom work: https://dawnartdesign.com/contact-me/

For more support and information please see:

             Metals Tutorials Resources and Support

         Paper and Bookbinding Tutorials,Resources and Support

Please visit the Contact Me page to order items or custom work: https://dawnartdesign.com/contact-me/