The Sunday Paper #547

March 16, 2025

FREE Zoom mini-workshop alert! Come make a Peace Globe with me on April 1st (no foolin’). The session will begin with a short, face-paced overview of The Paper Year, followed by the workshop. (The Paper Year will open for registration that day – Hold Your Spot).

Register for this one-hour event and get the supply list here. This workshop will take place on Tuesday, 4/1 at Noon mountain time (GMT-7).

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Go Big! If you work large, need oversize sheets or larger quantities of Japanese paper, rolls can be a good format. Easy to store and then to cut to the size you need. Washi Arts stocks a wide range of paper on rolls for printmaking, drawing, dyeing, botanical printing, letterpress, brush painting, paper sculpture, momigami and of course window coverings and shoji panels. Proprietor Linda Marshall offers wonderful customer service and is always glad to make recommendation for your projects. Here are just a few of the best-selling rolls:
Shoji Natural, Shoji Baika White, Kozuke, Unryu, Chiri and Sumie-Rolls. Find the entire selection at Washi Arts.

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Check out these giant puppets, animated by the dancers who wear them, that are called mojigangas (moh-he-GAHN-gahs). At the entrance to Hermes Arroyo’s workshop in San Miguel, a collection of giant paper-and-paste figures, taller than the doorway and dolled up in finery — stand ready at any moment for one of the many parades and festivals held throughout the year on the cobblestone streets of this city in central Mexico.

Hermes Arroyo’s mojigangas are made of paper and an adhesive solution, a version of papier-mâché called cartonería. On their own the figures are about 2.4 meters tall, or almost eight feet. Credit. Fred Ramos for The New York Times.

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Origami creators on YouTube are a testament to tangible artistry, thriving in a world of digital innovation. Origami is trending! In 2024, there were more than 300,000 uploads of videos related to origami.

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Paper Tidbits

• We created a folded form called Goran’s Wave with a guest artist, Madonna Yoder of Gathering Folds in The Paper Year last month. Watch the video. 
• A spot has opened in my Taos Paper Retreat. We’ll be weaving paper during the week of July 21st in the land of enchantment. Click here to read all about it and join us!
• Apply for this call!  Artist book submissions are being accepted (through 4/25) for the inaugural book arts sale at the Deepwater Literary Festival in Narrowsburg, NY this June.