Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Handmade Paper!

My mother-in-law sent me an early (very early) birthday present - a kit to make handmade paper! I'm quite excited as I had been thinking about this for some time, and as you can see, have been saving all my little scraps for just such an occasion:

I've started by making a whole stack of plain white paper, just to practice, and maybe even for a new calligraphy book project. I will post photos just as soon as they've finished drying.

4 comments:

  1. oooh! So jealous. I have a couple of bags of paper strips just like that!

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  2. woohoo! join the papermakers! welcome to the world of people who have pulp in their arm hairs! seriously.

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  3. Ooh, that makes me want to get my papermaking things out. But first I have to get a stack of bookbinding projects out of the way.

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  4. I had pulp everywhere! But that's not at all unusual for me. And I can see it becoming an addiction. Easy and rewarding is a good way to make sure I waste a lot of time of something.

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