Papermaking with Plants: Creative Recipes and Projects Using Herbs, Flowers, Grasses, and Leaves - Hardcover

Hiebert, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580170870 ISBN 13: 9781580170871

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998

Synopsis

What can you do with banana and milkweed, cornhusks and pineapple, wheat straw and mulberry?  Make a deranged fruit salad?  A chapeau for Carmen Miranda?  No!  You can make your own unique hand crafted paper from natural materials with this complete how-to guide.

                With the step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs in Papermaking with Plants, you’ll learn how to:

·         Collect and harvest plant fibers from stalks, barks, leaves, and grasses

·         Process, press, dry and finish your paper using both Eastern and Western methods.

·         Embellish your paper with natural dyes and decorative materials like flower petals and pine needles

·         Craft one-of-a-kind projects such as vegetable papyrus, multipaper collages, and shaped papers including envelopes, lampshades, specialty books, and covers.

 

About this title

About the Author

Papermaker and artist Helen Hiebert has served as Program Director at Dieu Donne Papermill in New York City for five years, responsible for program development and administration, editing and design of the mill's newsletter, teaching and papermaking. She has written the popular book Papermaking with Plants, and her most recent Storey title is The Papermaker's Companion. Helen's paper products have been featured in the Dieu Donne papermaking exhibitions, and she has taught papermaking workshops at Dieu Donne, the Women's Studio Workshop, the Horticultural Society of New York, and the New York Botanical Garden. Her paper products have appeared in House & Garden and Country Living magazines. She currently resides in Oregon.

From the Back Cover

Create Unique Handmade Paper from Wild or Cultivated Plants!

Create your own hand-crafted paper from natural materials you gather with this complete how-to guide. From hosta to milkweed and corn husks to pineapple leaves, almost any plant can be transformed into an elegant sheet of paper. With the step-by-step instructions in Papermaking with Plants, you'll learn how to:

* Collect and harvest plant fibers from stalks, bark, leaves, and grasses

* Process the fiber and press, dry, and finish your paper

* Embellish your paper with natural dyes and decorative materials like flower petals and pine needles

* Craft one-of-a-kind projects such as vegetable papyrus, multi-paper collages, envelopes, lampshades, and specialty books.

Reviews

As interest in papermaking grows, more and more artist-owned paper mills are springing into existence. This popularity, in turn, has spawned a whole new crowd of papermakers intrigued by the craft's environmental consciousness as well as its history and artistry. Hiebert, who confesses she began papermaking with a blender, includes processes and projects that require no mastery of complicated skills and demand only simple equipment. Most of the space in her book is devoted to techniques, from identifying plants to use (elongated leaves that are hard to tear crosswise are best) to troubleshooting if the pulp remains unappetizing. In addition, Hiebert draws on the expertise of others, showing, for example, how Oregonian Marilyn Wold transformed seaweed into paper. One would only wish for more actual process photographs and fewer illustrations. Barbara Jacobs

Edition details

• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580170870
• ISBN 13: 9781580170871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112