The Sunday Paper #63
Paper of the Week: Tracing Paper
You know the tracing paper that you can get at any art supply store? It comes on a roll, in two colors (canary yellow and white) and in varying widths …
The Sunday Paper #64
Featured Paper of the Week: Akatosashi from Paper Connection International
In the early 1990’s, I had the opportunity to see a Japanese papermaking exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where I met Lauren …
The Sunday Paper #67
Paper of the Week: Brew Paper
Adding items (often referred to as inclusions) to the papermaking vat is one of the simplest ways to make unique and intriguing papers. I was recently approached by a brewery …
The Sunday Paper #66
Paper of the Week: Abaca with Embedded String
Most of you know that I love the qualities of translucency and shrinkage inherent in abaca fiber. This long fiber is a relative of the banana plant, and …
The Sunday Paper #70
Paper of the Week: Abaca with Embedded Wire
When I learned that I could embed items between two sheets of wet handmade paper during the papermaking process an entire new world opened up for me. I …
The Sunday Paper #71
Paper of the Week: Vellum
Before there was paper, vellum was a paper-like substrate made from calfskin, which was cleaned, bleached, stretched on a frame, and scraped to produce single pages for scrolls and books. Today, …
The Sunday Paper #72
Paper of the Week: Graph Paper
There are a lot of mundane papers that are pretty cool, like graph paper. I thought I’d do a little research about it, and it turns out that rectangular grid …
The Sunday Paper #73
Paper of the Week: Hosta Paper
In about 1996, when I was working at Dieu Donné Papermill in NYC, I received a letter via snail mail from an editor at Storey Books, inquiring whether I would …
The Sunday Paper #74
Paper of the Week: Pleated Abaca
I learned about manipulating wet paper from Jocelyn Chateauvert, who is the queen of this technique in my book (see her work below).
After you make and couch a …
The Sunday Paper #75
Paper of the Week: Shaped Paper
Making shaped papers is a unique hand papermaking technique. There really isn’t any other way to get a shaped sheet of paper with deckled edges. For those of us who …