The Sunday Paper #339
November 22, 2020
A display of Radha Pandey’s various papers made in the Indo-Islamic style, along with tools used in the tradition.
Radha Pandey is a papermaker and letterpress printer. She earned her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book, where she was a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has learned European, Eastern and Indo-Islamic Papermaking techniques with Timothy Barrett and teaches book arts classes in India, Europe and the United States. Her artists books are held in over 40 public and private collections internationally, including the Library of Congress and Yale University. Currently, Radha is working on an artist book inspired by Mughal floral portraiture from the 16th century, and how it was impacted by colonialization of plants. All the paper for the edition will be hand made in the traditional Indo-Islamic style. Radha teaches many of these techniques online. Click through to find out about upcoming workshops.
I’m loving this watermark design based on Tangram puzzles. Did you play with Tangrams as a kid? They are an age-old set of shapes that you can put together in various ways. This sheet of paper features 24 Tangram sets that I arranged on the computer and then cut to create this watermark. Here you see a double-couched sheet with a dark purple sheet underneath, some plain sheets made with bamboo fiber, and a few other designs. You can see how these sheets dried on my Instagram.
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Isamu Noguchi with Akari lights sculptures, 1968. Source: The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, NY/Artists Rights Society (ARS)
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Featured this week in my Studio shop:
All About The Paper Year 2021, The Papermaker’s Studio Guide DVD, Woven Paper Lantern Workshop, & The Papermaker’s Companion. |
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2 Comments
An image in Sunday Paper #339 shows a sheet of Radha’s paper described as “double-couched.” Can you explain the process (if it is one) of double couching?
Hi Liz, double couching is when you laminate two sheets together. So, one sheet is couched, and then a second one is couched on top of the first one. You could embed something in between or create two-sided sheets. Since there is no official papermaking dictionary, these phrases evolve… Thanks for asking!