Newly pulled big sheet of paper with hosta highlights

Studio Workspace Resident Trudy Barnes finds inspiration from everyday objects in her environment.

You now have a piece of paper on a piece of flanel

Remove the Deckle revieling the paper. The paper is now couched to the Felt.

The wet pieces are allowed to dry thoroughly. I layed them out on a towel and turned them occasionally. A drying rack or screen would have been better.

My students used the sheets of paper they made for Mother's Day cards.

with Josie Beszant

And there is a little sheet!

We put white scraps of paper into the blender and added water to soften them.

with Josie Beszant

from the Oberlin Living Machine

After the Deckle has drained for a few minutes, remove the Mold from the Deckle.

My first attempts at papermaking.

From a recent ballad printing project at UCSB. We made our own paper, cut our own woodblocks, typeset and hand printed an early modern ballad. Thanks to Paddy Fumerton, Andrew Griffin, and the Early Modern Center.

Peal the paper off the felt.

Photos from Melissa Jay Craig's Portable Papermaking workshop at the Center for Book Arts on October 22-23, 2011.

photos by Kara Smith

Still from Making of Japanese handmade paper of Kyoto Kurotani

Photos from the Feb 4-5, 2012 workshop with Aimee Lee. Paper felting, cording and weaving over two days!

The first step of it, anyway. Would've had to pay to do the rest of it.

Hand Papermaking 25 Year celebration gathering in Chicago, Illinois at the Columbia College Center for Books and Paper

Papermaking workshop at the Enrichment Center (Winston-Salem).

Class taught by Bryant Holsenbeck

Paper carries meaning far deeper than the words it can convey. In direct collaboration with art therapists, the Peace Paper Project brings the artistic expression of resilience and healing to communities all over the world. We learned about paper making as cultural transformation in this lecture and live demonstration.

Photograph by Hanna Pitz

Remove the weight and top cookie sheet.

Remove the top piece of flanel from the sandwiches in the stack, creating a stack of flanel, paper, flanel, paper, . . .

with Josie Beszant

Hand Papermaking 25 Year celebration gathering in Chicago, Illinois at the Columbia College Center for Books and Paper