The Sunday Paper #580

November 9, 2025

I’m getting ready to edition my next artist’s book, A Woven A to Z. This week, I made a test sheet for the box liner. Can you find my mistake? I didn’t notice it until I’d couched the wet sheet. That’s par for the course in this type of work. I’ll get that letter D right reading next time! In the meantime, I can’t wait to see how this paper looks when it is dry.

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I had the pleasure of speaking with Naomi J. Kendall on Paper Talk, an artist based in Somerset in the UK. Kendall completed a foundation course at Cheltenham School of Art and pursued a degree in art history from Leicester University and a postgraduate degree in gallery and museum studies from Manchester University. After a career working in galleries, in community arts, and as director of an arts charity in London, she returned to making her own work in 2011. Kendall exhibits her work internationally and is featured as a master artisan in the Michelangelo Foundation’s Homo Faber Guide, an online platform dedicated to craftsmanship that allows you to discover artisans and their masterpieces, explore museums, visit galleries and shops selling one-of-a-kind objects, and enjoy artistic experiences in cities across Europe. Enjoy our conversation!

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A research team from Canada and other nations has been focusing on the Japanese paper-cutting tradition of kirigami and have successfully developed a highly functional parachute. The fact that it can be mass-produced for a low cost makes it useful in times of conflict and disaster for distributing emergency supplies. Here is one carrying a water bottle. How clever!

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There is a growing interest in papermaking and art therapy (there’s even a book about it). All veterans have a story to tell. For too long, we have lived in a day and age where veterans tend to suppress their experiences – producing a culture of the “silent veteran.” Frontline Paper (formerly known as Combat Paper NJ) is a unique art project that offers artistic tools and professional instruction for all, providing a space to use art and writing to explore experiences, and ultimately share them publicly, all through papermaking. Frontline Paper, from the Hands of Frontline Arts’ Transformative Papermaking Program is on view at the Arts Council of Princeton, Nov 15 – Dec 10.

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Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 (on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts through January 11th) showcases a broad range of work by more than forty Dutch and Flemish women artists. Three paper cuttings by Joanna Koerten (aka Scissors Minerva) are in the show.

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Paper Tidbits

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Author’s Corner

We’re just a month away from Pub Day, and Weaving With Paper is getting some lovely reviews. Here are two excerpts:

Publishers Weekly: “Paper artist Hiebert (The Art of Papercraft) provides an inspiring guide to paper weaving, in which strips of paper are interlaced to create decorative designs… This is sure to get crafters’ creative juices flowing.”

Booklist: “This might be the ultimate craft or both recycling and saving money. An expert in artfully crafting with paper, Hiebert goes to the next level here, exploring the interlacing of papers (and textiles and even sandpaper).”

Weaving With Paper is now available for pre-order on my website (and elsewhere). Publication day is December 16th, so I will be shipping copies to arrive then. Please place your order through me by November 17th in order to get your book before the holidays.

 

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