Soho House, December Magazine Cover. Credit: Client @sohohouse, Art Direction @niklasjuil, Photography: Mike Foyle
December 30, 2018
I’m reviewing my 100 x 100 Days of Paper Weaving Project from 2013 (some of you followed my blog back then where I kept a pseudo diary about the project). I started The Sunday Paper shortly after that project. Those 100 weavings are the inspiration behind my upcoming class Weave Through Winter (although we’ll be creating 30 weavings over 30 days).
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of visiting Wet Paint, an art supply store in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a fabulous paper selection. This weaving is a blend of two papers that I purchased there: crystal metal and electric zigzag lokta Paper.
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In the Studio
I spent some time this past week reflecting on what transpired in my business in 2018 and thinking about what is coming up in 2019. Read my 2018: It’s a Wrap newsletter here.
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This is a fascinating article in The Economist about the the conversations at a recent international meeting on origami in science, mathematics and education. It also provides a nice history of origami in the artistic, scientific and mathematical realms and explains how the Miura-ori fold provides a crucial link between origami and science.
Many of you know of Mark Lander’s critter beaters. Here’s a time-lapse video of Mark building a huge Hollander beater for Green Banana Paper in Micronesia. You can listen to my interview with the CEO of Green Banana Paper here (and I’ll have to interview Mark soon too). Search for Papermaking with Mark Lander Part II to see him processing New Zealand flax.
Sam Pierpoint is living a paper dream life: making paper sculptures for advertising or awareness campaigns in the events, public relations, environmental and travel and tourism sectors. Be sure to watch the video at the link about the piece Pierpoint created for the City of Strasbourg’s #CapataledeNoel campaign in collaboration with French design agency @citeasen.
Soho House, December Magazine Cover. Credit: Client @sohohouse, Art Direction @niklasjuil, Photography: Mike Foyle
James Dimech made this dress from the pages of Pink. Wowza!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video by The Origami Lady on how to create a paper volcano. What a great project to make and to watch in action!
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3 Comments
i heard from my sisters that the Frick House Museum in Pittsburgh has a paper dress exhibit running, ad it was fabulous.
Congratulations on an amazing year, fantastic progressions with the abaca! The Museum of West Louisiana has paper dresses made of newspaper on permanent display, as an example of Depression Era fashion, because folks in that rural area were particularly hard hit. So sorry for the loss of Elaine Koretsky. What a contributory powerhouse!
This is my first visit to your blog, Helen. I discovered you via your interview on Alyson Stanfield’s Art Biz Success blog – https://artbizsuccess.com/income-streams-podcast/ – while browsing, just following my intuition after breakfast. Your journey stemming from a 100-piece project is similar to what I face now, as I prepare a 100-piece collection in colored pencil works on paper for my first works available for sale.
As I browsed the Cheap Joe and Dick Blick 2019 catalogs, I kept going back to the plant-based papers, but they’re a bit pricey. So papermaking could be in my future.
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