The Paper Decorator - Softcover

Skinner, Kerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823039323 ISBN 13: 9780823039326

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns, 2000

Inspiring and innovative, this book opens up a whole new realm of decorative possibilities by showing how the versatility of a beautiful natural material can be used to fashion papercraft creations for every room in the house. Step-by-step demonstrations include hands-on paper projects for fresh wall treatments (collage wall, wallpaper, mosaic dado, wall hanging, wall lights), furniture (coffee table, chair, storage unit, chest of drawers, kitchen nook), accessories (mirror, fireplace screen, headboard, bowl, pot, lampshade), and other objects. Instructions are given for papermaking, sheet forming, papier-mch, layering, pulps, casting, laminating, stretching, dyeing, painting, waxing, bleaching, stenciling, stamping, gilding, collage, and decoupage.

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About the Author:

Kerry Skinner, an interior designer and crafts writer, was born in Africa. Her broad travels through the South Pacific, South America, Europe, and India have influenced her innovative techniques, applied to design commissions for Elton John, Imogen Stubbs, Harrods, and other famous clients. She currently lives in England.

From Library Journal:

Many decorative techniques books include a project that involves either decoupage or gilding, in these two books the techniques get more comprehensive coverage. Skinner provides well-written instructions to projects that include furniture, walls, floors, and decorative accessories in an eclectic, modern style with photographs to accompany each step. The techniques in Gilded Room include metallic paint effect and gilding, concluding with swatches of the range of finishes and effects that can be achieved. Paper Decorator includes papier mache, decoupage, paper mosaic, and latex resist techniques. The wealth of projects contained in each will give an amateur and more experienced crafter plenty of ideas. Purchase where there is a continued interest in decorative techniques.
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