Baumwolllinters, farbige Pulpe

Book artist and papermaker Mandy Brannan helped participants to discover the creative possibilities of combining two papermaking techniques; traditional style Japanese papermaking and recycled papermaking. The masterclass began with hand-beating kozo fibres, which add both strength and delicacy to the work. The following stage was working with recycled pulps with found papers, finally creating experimental paper sheets by combining both kozo fibres and recycled pulp.

As you can see, I do this in the bath (doesn't make as much mess as you'd think really).

The paper fibers were poured into a fine cloth and then the water was wrung out. The moist pulp mass is now ready to be mixed with a binder to help it come into form.

Photo by J. Leigh Garcia

Photo by J. Leigh Garcia

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check out these men standing on a pile of wood

Photo taken by

Dustin Seelinger

Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts MFA

Columbia College Chicago

By students, to staff

papermaking with horsehair

oh boy!

Photo by J. Leigh Garcia

Tear up into teeny tiny pieces. Very good for stress relief.

Photo by J. Leigh Garcia

homemade paper note books (for treasures)