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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:
#65533; Collect and harvest plant fibers from stalks, barks, leaves, and grasses
#65533; Process, press, dry and finish your paper using both Eastern and Western methods.
#65533; Embellish your paper with natural dyes and decorative materials like flower petals and pine needles
#65533; Craft one-of-a-kind projects such as vegetable papyrus, multipaper collages, and shaped papers including envelopes, lampshades, specialty books, and covers.
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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. (Reviewed October 1, 1998)1580170870Barbara Jacobs
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments |
| Preface |
| Introduction |
| Chapter 1 Collecting Plant Fiber |
| Chapter 2 Getting Ready to Make Paper |
| Chapter 3 Processing Plant Fiber |
| Chapter 4 Making Paper |
| Chapter 5 Recipes, Techniques, and Projects |
| Appendix: Papermaking Plants |
| Glossary |
| Reading List |
| Resource Guide |
| Index |
