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The Sunday Paper #305 March 29, 2020 Paper of the Week: See Through Assortment Times, they are a changing! I’ll be listing a few sets of paper each week until business gets back to normal, or a new normal. Limited quantities of this See Through Assortment are available on my website in The Paper Shop. Thanks to those of you who made purchases last week! Continue reading Snail Mail
The Sunday Paper #304 March 22, 2020 Paper of the Week: Abaca Leather + Thick Abaca Can you see the difference between these two abaca sheets? It appears subtle in these photos, but they are quite different. Limited quantities of these abaca leather and thick abaca sheets are available on my website in The Paper Shop. ———————————————————————————————––––––– In the Studio: I’ve started Continue reading Paper Pastries
The Sunday Paper #303 This issue of The Sunday Paper is dedicated to my sweet father-in-law, Pete, who passed away this week at the age of 92. March 15, 2020 Paper of the Week: Dare I mention TP? My husband fell in love with Japanese toilets last fall and decided to get me one for Christmas. I wasn’t so sure what I thought of Continue reading Making & Baking
The Sunday Paper #302 March 8, 2020 Paper of the Week: Flexible Book Structures + Paper Kit We are going to be exploring a variety of unique papers in my upcoming online class, Flexible Book Structures. We’ll apply konnyaku to Korean hanji to make momigami, stain Tyvek, create a book light with hanji and Japanese linen, a scroll with a leathery paper called Kraft Continue reading Read Me Like A Book
The Sunday Paper #301 March 1, 2020 Paper of the Week: I was focusing on abaca over on instagram this week, where I shared several works I’ve created over the years with this incredible, shrinking, sculptural material. Abaca is banana plant waste that I grind into a mushy malleable pulp and turn into sheets of paper which are smooth enough to draw on, supple enough Continue reading Peace Postcards
The Sunday Paper #300 February 23, 2020 Paper of the Week: Tant Origami Paper Two contributors to the book I’m writing recommended Tant origami paper, which I’d never heard of before. But you know how when you hear about something, it starts appearing everywhere? I was talking to a paper distributor a few weeks ago who told me that Tant is packaged in Echizen, Continue reading Water Paper Time
The Sunday Paper #299 February 16, 2020 Paper of the Week: A Sheet of Abaca in 1:20 I made a short video of me making a sheet of abaca. The sheet size is 18″ x 23″ and I’m making it on an old English mould that I purchased many years ago. It only takes about 1-1/2 minutes to pull and couch a sheet (I Continue reading Papermaking in Action
The Sunday Paper #298 February 9, 2020 Paper of the Week: Weave Through Winter Top left moving clockwise: Andrea Martin, Ann Kebbell, Suzanne Berland, Cynthia Reid, Susan Ruptash. We are finishing up our 30 Days of Weave Through Winter on Valentine’s Day, and it has been such a treat to see the variety of weavings that have been created over the past few Continue reading A Pop-Up Valentine for You
The Sunday Paper #297 February 2, 2020 Paper of the Week: Kyoseishi from Washi Arts Kyoseishi (kee-o-say-shi) is a handmade, dyed Japanese paper than has konnyaku starch kneaded into the kozo fibers to strengthen the paper. Kyoseishi means strong paper. This type of paper is known as momigami (crinkled paper). The distinctive texture comes from the process of kneading the starch into the paper. Continue reading Pop-Up Paper Groundhog
The Sunday Paper #296 January 26, 2020 Paper of the Week: Jean-Paul LeConte on Paper Talk It was such a treat to speak with Jean-Paul LeConte who runs the popular website Best Pop Up Books with his girlfriend Denice in The Netherlands. We talk about how the purchase of a copy of Robert Sabuda’s Alice in Wonderland pop-up book several years ago, led him Continue reading A Cubicard Finale
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