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!

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

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, . . .

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

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

My first attempts at papermaking.

The water from the tub has been added to the paper pieces in the blinder.

Masahiko Futami Photography

on shower stalls

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

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

Class taught by Bryant Holsenbeck

Where Art & Paper meet

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from inside kitchen, backlit sliding door

(It's a cat)

One color combination chosen by a student for his sheet of paper.

The worker gathers water (mixed with bamboo) and peels off the top layer and adds it onto the "pile" ... It gets steamed afterwards. This is the STEAM PROCESS!

3d paper

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

So much variety from one plant!

During her residency, Andrea Chung experimented in the papermaking studio, teaching herself a new technique to tell the stories of Jamaican midwives. Read more on our blog: bit.ly/andrea-chung