Curious how creative communities can work to protect the environment, Sheila Nakitende brought her interdisciplinary practice to the papermaking studio. Check it out on our blog: bit.ly/sheila-nakitende

photos by Kara Smith

at Oxbow papermaking studio June 2008

by Giselle Simon

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Photographer: WSAC Staff

04/1995

1995

1 slide ; 1 x 1.5 in.

Slides

material culture; crafts; paper craft; book arts; papermaking; paper

Demonstration table at the 20th Annual Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival in 1995.

Photographed by Dean Wong or Midori Kono Thiel for the Asian Festivals of Washington State project.

MAM/GHA/AF

with Josie Beszant

Tia came to WSW in the early summer of 2012 to work in our papermaking studio. Inspired by contstruction next door, Tia created a luminous handmade paper installation in the skeletal structure of our building rehailitation-in-progress.

Tia came to WSW in the early summer of 2012 to work in our papermaking studio. Inspired by contstruction next door, Tia created a luminous handmade paper installation in the skeletal structure of our building rehailitation-in-progress.

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

Five young workers pose for a picture in front of paper rollers and a paper cutter at the Newton Falls Paper Mill. Newton Falls, NY. Circa 1890. Courtesey of the Town of Clifton Museum.

Next it is painted with a 50/50 mixture of acrylic gloss medium and water.

Next we blended the white paper scraps to make paper pulp.

Making paper while I was living in Mexico.

with Josie Beszant

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

at Oxbow papermaking studio

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

Happy Mother's Day to my mom

and to all moms out there! =D

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

photos by Kara Smith

An ancient papermaking technique is still popular in Laopeng village in Zhangjiajie, central China’s Hunan province. With technological advancements, making paper by hand has given way to machinery production and the ancient papermaking in Laopeng village is slowly fading out of sight.

Phyllostachys pubescens, a kind of bamboo, is the raw material used to make the paper, and this traditional technique involves 10-step procedures.