High Shrinkage Abaca

The Sunday Paper #470

July 23, 2023

It was a busy week in the studio with my Papermaking Master Class. We covered a lot of ground, getting hands-on experience in sheet forming, watermarking, coloring pulp and sculptural techniques, and spending a day at Susan Mackin Dolan’s studio processing plant fibers and learning her low-tech methods for making professional papers. We ended the week assembling some of our dry sheets into sample books. I’ll be scheduling a couple of Master Classes for 2024 soon. If you’re interested, find out more and fill out a short application.

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Origami in the Garden, the brainchild of Kevin and Jennifer Box –who turn origami forms into giant metal sculptures – has a new touring exhibition called Florigami – which will open in August at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.

Pinwheel Wildflowers

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Check out the July/August issue of Popular Mechanics, featuring an animated paper airplane. The magazine is celebrating their fascinating history with this contribution to the field of aerodynamics and engineering.

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I enjoyed watching how Philomena Marano creates her unique paper cuts from the bottom up (click through to watch a video). Marano says: “Piecing the whole artwork together is like building something layer by layer, so it’s almost sculptural.”

© Philomena Marano

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Corn starch isn’t just for cooking! Read about the other applications, including its role in the paper manufacturing process.

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Paper Tidbits

Have you had a chance to listen to my interview with Brian Queen on Paper Talk? He had some great recommendations, which you will find at the bottom of the show notes page.

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Papermaking Series: High Shrinkage Abaca

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking video.

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