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A great group from St Johns with St Marks were in making paper sculpture with Howard from Artists in Schools. I was really impressed with some of the work they came up with. Great stuff

Toilet Paper by elycefeliz

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I am grateful for toilet paper -

Gratitude Series 2013 - photo #8 - Хвала - Serbian

Toilet paper is a soft tissue paper product primarily used to maintain personal hygiene after human defecation or urination. It is typically sold as a long strip of perforated paper wrapped around a cardboard core, to be stored in a dispenser adjacent to a toilet. Most modern toilet paper in the developed world is designed to decompose in septic tanks, whereas some other bathroom and facial tissues are not.

The use of paper for such hygiene purposes has been recorded in China in the 6th century, with specifically manufactured toilet paper being mass produced in the 14th century. Elsewhere, wealthy people wiped themselves with wool, lace or hemp, while less wealthy people used their hand when defecating into rivers, or cleaned themselves with various materials such as rags, wood shavings, leaves, grass, hay, stone, sand, moss, water, snow, maize, ferns, may apple plant husks, fruit skins, or seashells, and corncobs, depending upon the country and weather conditions or social customs.

In Ancient Rome, a sponge on a stick was commonly used, and, after usage, placed back in a bucket of saltwater.

Joseph Gayetty is widely credited with being the inventor of modern commercially available toilet paper in the United States. Gayetty's paper, first introduced in 1857, was available as late as the 1920s. Gayetty's Medicated Paper was sold in packages of flat sheets, watermarked with the inventor's name. Original advertisements for the product used the tagline "The greatest necessity of the age! Gayetty's medicated paper for the water-closet."

Twenty-six billion rolls of toilet paper, worth about US$2.4 billion, are sold yearly in America alone. Americans use an average of 23.6 rolls per capita a year.

tissue paper flowers by Claire Cohen

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These tissue paper flowers are made from red tissue paper and repurposed sewing patterns. Each flower is about 4" across and the black pipe cleaner stem is about 8" long with a button threaded on for fun. Each flower is unique and the set of 4 will be randomly chosen from those I have on hand. Make great gift toppers!

Mysterious paper sculptures by chrisdonia

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Ray Cube Variation S3 by Priti Hansia

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By Meenakshi Mukerji

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Pitch cover by Matt Hawkins

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Cover of the Pitch! A little diorama action. Everything was hand built out of paper and then photographed. Photo and art direction by Zach Trover (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ztrover/)

I'll post some "making of" photos tonight.

Painted Paper Chicks by peagreengirl

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Chicks

First Paper Piecing Project! by Rachelle

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Paper Kite by Timothy K Hamilton

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Taken with my "old" lens. St. Louis Butterfly House - a part of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

I particularly like the "red" of the flowers glowing through the translucent right wing!!

1k-2068 Paper Kite

paper craft bags by Claudia Gargioni

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Daisy Chains. by Curtis Fugate

Designed by Eric Gjerde. Folded by me. This is a great tesselation. Fairly complex and was difficult to fold the first time. I gave up a couple of times before finally getting it. Props to Eric for a great design.

fabric63 by Kit Seaton

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Russian musical fests '12 by vera lysenko

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Paper based prototyping by Samuel Mann