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Rag & Pulp

The Sunday Paper #459

May 7, 2023

It’s been lovely to be back in Portland, seeing old friends and familiar places. My message today is brief – our daughter’s graduation is today.

Here’s your Sunday Paper:  

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Uppercase Magazine has been producing encyclopedias of inspiration about various crafts for the past 10 years. These are beautiful books to inspire, inform and delight, and the next volume, Rag & Pulp, comes out this summer, and it is all about paper! I’m pleased to be one of the 45-50 profiled artists. Pre-order a copy at the link.

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The 18th Annual Art of the Book is now on view at Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, CA: May 2 – May 31; reception for the artists: Sunday, May 21 from 4:00 – 6:00; poetry reading with Charles and Sandra Hobson: Sunday, May 28 from 4 to 6 pm.

© 2022, Barbara Wildenboer, Tales of Mystery and Imagination

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I always enjoy reading the All Things Paper blog, and this post features some really interesting things. Did you know: there are 1mm wide quilling strips (so skinny!); Canson Mi-Teintes Ultra Premium paper works well for quilling; and this glue brush applicator has two tips for putting glue on the right spot.

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British Algae, by Anna Atkins, is thought to be the first book to be illustrated using photographic images. The English botanist (1799-1871) produced her collection using the cyanotype technique, which she became aware of through her father’s friendship with its inventor, John Herschel.

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Paper TidbitsThe Movable Book Society will meet in Cleveland this fall. Join the fun and meet prominent paper engineers from around the globe.

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Papermaking Series: Dowel Rod Transfer

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking videos.

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The Fractured Giant

The Sunday Paper #458

April 30, 2023

My husband Ted, our son Will and I are heading to Portland, OR on Wednesday to celebrate our daughter’s graduation from the University of Portland. Congratulations to Lucah, who started an internship last summer that led to a recent job offer. She’ll be staying in PDX for the foreseeable future. It’s a nice place to visit! Let me know if you have any Portland paper tips for me, and PDX friends: I’m hosting an open house/birthday party from 4-7pm-ish on Tuesday, May 9th at our Airbnb in North Portland. E-mail me for details.

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How cool is this? An upcycled artwork that serves as a great reminder of your giving and the recipient’s intention. Heather Leavitt Martinez is creating these cut art cards that hang from a piece of jute twine and are temporarily backed by paper embedded with wildflower seeds. You get to: 1. Write intention(s) on seeded card with a pencil; 2. Plant seed paper; 3. Hang artwork in a window to serve as a reminder of your intentions; 4. Watch your intentions blossom and grow! Give the gift that keeps on giving!

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I love this: Rather than a list of names or topics, artist Jacob Hashimoto’s index is purely visual, a demonstration of different motifs used by the artist in his sculptural works. For The Hashimoto Index I, the artist created ninety-six woodblock prints that can be arranged into endless combinations of compositions. I had the pleasure of seeing his work in Dallas several years ago. If you’re in Boise, go immerse yourself underneath his Fractured Giant installation; if you aren’t, you can watch a timelapse video of the construction). Thanks to those of you who alerted me to this show – it was featured in AAA Magazine.

Jacob Hashimoto (American, born 1973), The Hashimoto Index I, 2017, 96 woodblock prints on Igarashi Kozo 450g, edition of 19, Courtesy of the artist

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Wowza! I can’t help myself – all of the features this week are knocking my socks off. Sho Shibuya started to reinterpret the sunrise outside his apartment window into bright, colorful paintings that masked the cover of the daily newspaper. The works became an exercise in simplicity, minimalism, and meditation, and today, they’re part of a growing archive that includes hundreds of the gradients, in addition to more evocative pieces that reflect on politics and current events. Click through to see more!

© Sho Shibuya, as seen on Colossal

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This is a fascinating article about drawings on paper dyed with indigo. Though blue paper appears frequently in international museum collections, its historical scholarship is limited. Alexa McCarthy’s doctoral research at the University of St. Andrews represents the first large-scale study of blue paper, and she recently recapped her findings to the Bowdoin community in a lecture.

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Paper TidbitsHave you had a chance to listen to my interview with Jane Ingram Allen on Paper Talk?In Cahoots offers both paid and funded residencies for printmakers, book artists, letterpress printers and writers.

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Papermaking Series: Embedding

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking videos. I’ll be filming a new batch of videos in the near future. Let me know if there’s a papermaking technique that you’d like to see a video about!

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Couching Materials

The Sunday Paper #457

April 23, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jane Ingram Allen on Paper Talk. Allen is a sculptor and installation artist who uses hand papermaking with natural materials and collaborative processes to create indoor and outdoor artworks that raise public awareness about environmental issues. Enjoy our conversation!

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The Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, located on the Lincroft campus of Brookdale Community College in New Jersey, presents Entanglements, featuring work by ecofeminist artist-educator Amanda Thackray. Thackray creates complex forms referencing abandoned, lyrically floating, tangled netting with paper rope.

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Coming up in Middlebury, Vermont: an exhibit at the Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, which will be on view April 21 – June 10. Skylights is a collection of works on paper by Winslow Colwell, who takes the simple kite to a new and whimsical spot in the virtual sky. (Fun fact: our son will be starting a 1-year masters program in Japanese at Middlebury in July).

 

Artist Winslow Colwell presents #Skylights at the Jackson Gallery in Middlebury.

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Madrid-based artist Julia Yus takes us back to the delight in discovering that first pop-up book in her beautiful, hand-crafted paper illustrations.

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Would you wear a fragrance that smells like paper?

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Paper TidbitsMy Red Cliff Paper Retreat will take place August 21-25, 2023. Come explore a variety of papers that can be made by hand, cut, folded, stitched and assembled in a variety of ways to create books, wall hangings, sculpture, lighting and more.This looks like a great opportunity – a paid book artist residency at Maine Media.If you live near Portland, OR, check out this class: Light Through the Branches with Charissa Brock.

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In the Studio

A huge thank you to those who sent map strips for my Weaving the World Together project. I am busy processing the entries and exploring models.

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Papermaking Series: Couching Materials

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking videos. I’ll be filming a new batch of videos in the near future. Let me know if there’s a papermaking technique that you’d like to see a video about!

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4 Million Origami Hearts

The Sunday Paper #456

April 16, 2023

It’s been a whirlwind of a week in NYC – good food, great art, visual stimulation everywhere, lots of walking, and a nice break from my Colorado routine. A week was the perfect length, and I’m ready to go home tomorrow. Here are a few highlights: a nature printed/hand colored specimen book in the Treasures exhibition at the New York Public Library; a book about paper weaving from the kindergarten movement in the early 1900’s, which I viewed in the reading room at the NYPL; and the two original paper dresses, manufactured by the Scott Paper Company as a promotion in the 1960’s in the Generation Paper exhibition at the Museum of Art & Design.

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Nearly 4 million origami hearts were displayed at the complex of the famed Angkor Archaeological Park in northwest Cambodia’s Siem Reap province to show support for the 32nd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.

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Check out this unique style of paper cutting in the positive vs. negative spaces. Antonius-Tín Bui reveals intimate portraits of friends, family, and the diverse narratives that shape identity and community.

“Solo of Raven” (2021), hand-cut paper and paint, 109 x 60 inches. All images © Antonius Tin-Bui, courtesy of moniquemeloche

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As the world searches for ways to reduce the use of plastics (single use bags are already being banned in many places) a novel study by Penn State researchers demonstrates a process to make paper bags stronger — especially when they get wet — to make them a more viable alternative.

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This is so cool, a high school course in papermaking!

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Paper TidbitsThe North American Hand Papermakers invites all paper artists to participate in the 2023 Juried Exhibition, called Sustainability in Chaos.My Red Cliff Paper Retreat will take place August 21-25, 2023. Come explore a variety of papers that can be made by hand, cut, folded, stitched and assembled in a variety of ways to create books, wall hangings, sculpture, lighting and more.

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Featured in my Studio shop:

The Art of Papercraft, Sets of 5 sheets of Translucent Abaca, the Red Cliff Paper Retreat, and The Papermaker’s Companion.

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Abandoned Books

The Sunday Paper #455

April 9, 2023

I’m off to The Big Apple tomorrow for a vacation with a childhood girlfriend. I’m really looking forward to it! You’re welcome to follow my daily posts on Instagram.

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Check out the transformation of old abandoned books into sculptures and installations by Jukhee Kwon. The artist repetitively twists, ruffles, weaves, or links the pages, creating a variety of meshes and draping forms that cascade from the binding and vary greatly from one piece to the next.

“Oval Book Forum” (2023), paper (eight books), 400 x 200 x 150 centimeters. Photo by Jonathan Greet. All images © Jukhee Kwon, courtesy of October Gallery, London

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This is heartbreaking news, friends. A shining star in the book arts field has left us. From the GoFundMe page for Chandler O’leary: “We are shocked and heartbroken by the unexpected passing of our beloved Chandler O’Leary on Sunday the second of April, after a brief bout of sudden and severe pneumonia.” Chandler’s illustrations and witty humor were one-of-a-kind. You can support her family at this link.

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This is an interesting discussion about how paper is not just a support, but a protagonist in Georgia O’Keeffe’s drawings. Laura Neufeld, associate paper conservator at The Museum of Modern Art, speaks with curator Samantha Friedman about the work in the exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time.

Georgia O’Keeffe. Evening Star. 1917

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Who knew that mathematicians were searching for a shape that never repeats itself (of course they were)!  The guy behind the discovery of ‘The Einstein Tile’, David Smith, is a retired printing technician who spent a lot of time at home cutting shapes out of paper and experimenting with them.

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Paper TidbitsI’m still collecting map strips if you haven’t sent any yet.Applications are now open for the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art BRAVA Awards for Emerging Artist, Artist’s Book Artist, Native American & First Nations Artist, and Children’s Book Illustrator.Have you had a chance to listen to my interview with Margaret Rhein on Paper Talk?My Red Cliff Paper Retreat will take place August 21-25, 2023. Come explore a variety of papers that can be made by hand, cut, folded, stitched and assembled in a variety of ways to create books, wall hangings, sculpture, lighting and more.

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Papermaking Series: Beater Maintenance

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking videos. I’ll be filming a new batch of videos in the near future. Let me know if there’s a papermaking technique that you’d like to see a video about!

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Featured in my Studio shop:

The Art of Papercraft, Sets of 5 sheets of Translucent Abaca, the Red Cliff Paper Retreat, and The Papermaker’s Companion.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support! Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

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Lighting the Way

The Sunday Paper #454

April 2, 2023

To those of you who love my translucent abaca, I have some available. Scroll down to the Shop section below. 

The Paper Year opens for registration four times a year, and this is one of those times. You can join our paper-loving community now through April 8th. This next quarter (April – June) we’ll be creating tunnel books, exploring a reverse-piano hinge album and making waterfall cards with guest artist Marianne Petit. We also have a quarterly surface design workshop in April – we’ll try our hands at collage with Melanie Mowinski, author of the book Collage Your Life. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about The Paper Year, and welcome to our new members!

Scroll down to read about the FREE Zoom I hosted on Thursday and find the tutorial.

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I had a lovely conversation with Margaret Rhein on Paper Talk. Rhein has been involved full time in the art & craft of making paper by hand at her studio, Terrapin Paper Mill in Cincinnati, Ohio for the past 47 years; has exhibited her paper collages in galleries and craft shows throughout the country; and has taught many workshops in papermaking and book arts to adults and children. Over the years, she has made thousands of sheets of handmade paper, experimenting with a variety of fibers, shapes, colors and textures in 2- and 3-dimensional approaches, working spontaneously using colored cotton & linen pulps and combining patterned fabrics of various textures with other collage elements on the paper surface. Enjoy our conversation!

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I’m extremely fond of the work of Isamu Noguchi, and this auction took place last week (did anyone attend)? His lantern-forms are timeless, and there are a couple of illuminating essays about his work at the link.

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I was delighted to learn about the work of Joanna Keane Lopez over on The Jealous Curator (special thanks to a blog reader). Her billowing cloud-like sculptures made with paper and wire and colored with botanical dyes “capture the hues of the landscape”.

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Many of us make paper from flax fiber. This video has nothing to do with paper, but it shows the process of making linen from flax, which is amazing!

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Paper TidbitsI’m going to be in NYC April 10-17 with a childhood girlfriend for a vacation. Please let me know if there are any must-sees (preferably related to paper).Andrew Huot’s Big River Bindery has moved from Atlanta to Toronto. Check out his upcoming workshop offerings.My Red Cliff Paper Retreat will take place August 21-25, 2023. Come explore a variety of papers that can be made by hand, cut, folded, stitched and assembled in a variety of ways to create books, wall hangings, sculpture, lighting and more.

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In the Studio: 

We had fun making faceted map rings on Thursday, and I forgot to share this quote with participants: True navigation begins in the human heart. It’s the most important map of all. – ELIZABETH KAPU’UWAILANI 

Here’s the link to the replay on YouTube. The sample pictured was created by Marci Easterbrook during the zoom session. I love how the skeleton diagram looks folded up into this form!

On the topic of maps, it has been lovely to open the envelopes and see all of the map strips you’ve sent in for my Weaving the World Together project. Your notes and heart felt visions for our world are touching. I am still collecting strips through 4/15 – find the details here.

 

Papermaking Series: Laminating

Here’s the latest in my series of papermaking videos.

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Featured in my Studio shop:

The Art of Papercraft, Papermaking with Sets of 5 sheets of Translucent Abaca, the Red Cliff Paper Retreat, and The Papermaker’s Companion.

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A Paper Archive

The Sunday Paper #453

March 26, 2023

At the beginning of the year, I decided to start a new project: posting a daily paper in my archive on Instagram. Now that I’ve surpassed 50 days, I can reflect on a few things I’ve discovered by doing this project. First and foremost, I’m getting these papers that I’ve moved from studio to studio over the years out of a pile in the bottom drawer of my flat files. They are currently in order in a box, and soon I will purchase archival boxes to house them. The other fun discovery is the memories attached to each paper. Every time I create a post, I think about where I got the paper, when I made it, etc. – and that has turned out to be really fun – and quite manageable, because I’m only writing one post at a time. I’m creating a spreadsheet with all of this information, so that one day, when I hopefully turn this archive over to someone, I’ll have a record of these memories along with the physical papers.

If you’d like to read more about the sheets pictured below, click on the images, and you’ll be transported to the relevant Instagram posts.

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I haven’t really explored TikTok, but I enjoyed this one-minute video about the Minnesota Center for Book Arts on the platform.

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Meagan Woods assembled a collaborative team of artists, musicians and performers to create an innovative, experimental opera/installation called Once She Dries, addressing the critical condition of coral reefs around the world caused by climate change. The collaborative piece includes this handmade paper loop by Nancy Cohen that circles the gallery. The exhibition runs through April 2nd at the SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City, NJ.

Nancy Cohen, Segment of handmade paper loop that circles the gallery. Wire, thread and handmade paper, 80” x 140” x 46,” 2022. Photo credit: Maddie Orton

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I love this! Flocks of paper origami hummingbirds crafted by children from around the world departed their locations to “attend” the UN Water Conference in New York from 22-24 March, carrying the future generation’s resolve to turn the tide on the global water crisis.

UN Ghana Pupils at Independence Avenue 1&2 Junior High School in Accra, Ghana, hold origami hummingbirds, as part of the World Water Day 2023 campaign.

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How funny! This is the week of visual art operas. If you’re in the Bay Area, check this out: Composer and visual artist Gino Robair presents Radical Divination, his “opera of augury through papermaking.” During this event, papermakers create—using performative, game-based structures—a score for an operatic work.

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Paper TidbitsThis looks like a dream job: Director of the Textile Research Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.My Red Cliff Paper Retreat will take place August 21-25, 2023. Come explore a variety of papers that can be made by hand, cut, folded, stitched and assembled in a variety of ways to create books, wall hangings, sculpture, lighting and more.Paper Engineer David Carter has made the die lines for the projects in his how-to books public. How cool is that?!

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In the Studio: 

Join me for a 1-hour Zoom workshop and presentation this coming Thursday, March 30th at noon MST. I’ll talk about my Paper Year Membership Program, and then we’ll dive into making this Faceted Map Ring. All you need is a strip of paper! Read all about it and sign up here.

If you’ve contributed map strips to my Weaving the World Together project, I hope you saved the rest of your map, because it would work perfectly for this project. If you don’t have a map, or prefer not to use one, any text weight paper that folds well will work.

The first and last images below are the same map (front and back) and the middle image shows a decorative lokta paper with a mini faceted map ring in the center.

Papermaking Series: Denim Paper

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Featured in my Studio shop:

The Art of Papercraft, Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, the Red Cliff Paper Retreat, and The Papermaker’s Companion.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support! Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

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Make a Faceted Map Ring

The Sunday Paper #452

March 19, 2023

Join me for a 1-hour Zoom workshop and presentation on Thursday, March 30th at noon MST. I’ll talk about my Paper Year Membership Program, and then we’ll dive into making this Faceted Map Ring. All you need is a strip of paper! Read all about it and sign up here.

If you’ve contributed map strips to my Weaving the World Together project, I hope you saved the rest of your map, because it would work perfectly for this project. If you don’t have a map, or prefer not to use one, any text weight paper that folds well will work.

The first and last images below are the same map (front and back) and the middle image shows a decorative lokta paper with a mini faceted map ring in the center.

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Weave Through Winter was as amazing as ever this year. Here’s the video featuring just some of the weavings we created during the month of February. Click here if you’d like to be notified about next year’s course (Feb 1 – 29, 2024).

Some fun news: I’ve just signed a contract to write a book based on this course – I’m excited to get this information out in the world in another format.

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Check out this fantastic profile of Amos Paul Kennedy on Hyperallergic.

A selection of prints from Amos’s Coffee and God series (2022) (photo Angelina Lippert/Hyperallergic)

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Susan Beech, a paper artist in the UK, was commissioned by Nature Conservancy magazine to create more than 60 flowers made of crepe paper, painted with powdered pastels or dyed with tea. Click through to see many more flowers and watch a close up video of the artist at work. All this to bring to life an old notebook describing Grand Teton’s phenology, the seasonal timing of natural events such as the first snowmelt, the emergence of wildflowers, and the arrival and departure of migrating birds.

FEATURING (LEFT TO RIGHT) Black Henbane, Arrowleaf Balsamroot, Musk Thistle, Orange Agoseris, Sticky Purple Geranium, Striped Coralroot, Yellow Salsify, Wild Rose, American Globeflower, Black Henbane and Hoary Aster. © Alex Snyder/TNC

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“Around 1,300 years ago, a woman leant over a precious book, and etched some letters into the margin, along with some cartoonish drawings. She didn’t use ink – she scratched them in, so they were almost invisible to the naked eye. Until last year, no-one knew they were there…” Now, researchers are able to “see” these etchings thanks to a new imaging technology at the Bodleian Library, which can map the physical texture and contours of a book page, manuscript, or the surface of other historical objects such as printing plates. I wonder if these “etchings” could be related to watermarking in any way.

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Paper TidbitsHave you had a chance to listen to my interview with Carol Barton on Paper Talk?My Red Cliff Paper Retreat will take place August 21-25, 2023. Come explore a variety of papers that can be made by hand, cut, folded, stitched and assembled in a variety of ways to create books, wall hangings, sculpture, lighting and more.The Grolier Club in NYC is hosting a Virtual Symposium on Friday, March 24th in celebration of the “Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper” exhibition.I’ve set up a web page for a new project: Weaving the World Together. I need map strips from around the world – can you help? Many thanks to those of you who have sent me a strip!

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Papermaking Series: Restraint Drying System

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Featured in my Studio shop:

The Art of Papercraft, Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, the Red Cliff Paper Retreat, and The Papermaker’s Companion.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support! Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

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Scrap Paper Circus

The Sunday Paper #451

March 12, 2023

I had a cancellation this week for my Papermaking Master Class that will take place May 15 – 19, 2023. Would you like to join us? During this 5-day papermaking intensive, four of you will participate in every stage of the papermaking process as we discuss variations on professional and DIY studio set up, preparing pulp, mixing additives, sheet forming, pressing and drying. We will also cover a selection of creative techniques, which you will have time to explore.

Papermaking Master Class, May 15 – 19, 2023                                                       Red Cliff Paper Retreat, August 21 – 25, 2023

The Red Cliff Paper Retreat will take place August 21-25, 2023. The Retreat theme this year is Paper Panels. Come explore a variety of papers that can be made by hand, cut, folded, stitched and assembled in a variety of ways to create books, wall hangings, sculpture, lighting and more.

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I had a lovely interview with Carol Barton on Paper Talk. Barton is a painter, paper engineer, book artist and teacher who has published several editions and has organized both local and national shows, including the traveling Books and Bookends show and the Smithsonian Institution’s Science and the Artist’s Book exhibition. Her work is exhibited internationally and is in numerous collections, including the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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Here’s another Guinness World Record submission (I posted the longest flying paper airplane last week): Will West and his students at Dunbar High School in Fort Worth, TX worked together to fold and cut a giant sheet of paper into a snowflake measuring 58 feet across.

Photo by Dunbar High School/Facebook

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Check out these delightful and colorful upcycled books, along with a profile of their maker, Bel Mills of Scrap Paper Circus.

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Fiber Art Now welcomes the new year with a new Call for Entry: Paper Made. Enter your made-from-paper 2D or 3D artwork during the month of March. The artwork for Paper Made must be made primarily from paper or a paper product or created using a paper-making process. Juried selections will be featured in the summer 2023 issue of Fiber Art Now.

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Paper TidbitsI’ve set up a web page for a new project: Weaving the World Together. I need map strips from around the world – can you help? Many thanks to those of you who have sent me a strip!I love seeing what my Paper Year members come up with each month. Check out the Natural Armatures they created in February. Registration will open again March 30 – April 8.In Cahoots Residency is hosting a silent auction through March 19th. There’s lots of great art!

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Papermaking Series: Pulp Stenciling Version 2

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

The Art of Papercraft, Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, Water Paper Time, a film download, and The Papermaker’s Companion.

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If you read this blog regularly, would you consider making a donation to support the research, writing, design and delivery of The Sunday Paper? Thanks to everyone who has already pledged your support! Or, perhaps you’re interested in promoting your business in The Sunday Paper.

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Paper Effigies

The Sunday Paper #450

March 5, 2023

Thanks to everyone who has already sent me map strips! What fun it is to receive snail mail and your lovely messages. This warrants another shout out about my map project, as I’ll be collecting strips for awhile. As they say, the more the merrier! Here’s a photo of what I received this week. It’s so fun to see the handwriting, stamps and security envelope patterns, too.

I am about to begin working on a how-to book about paper weaving. In conjunction, I am launching my next project – a collaborative paper weaving. I’m collecting map strips with messages from participants around the world which I will weave into a large wall piece representing our collective planet. I hope to feature this weaving in the book and to exhibit it.

You can help by sending me your maps!

Here’s what I need:

Cut a map strip that is 1” (2.5CM) wide and 12” – 24″ (30 – 60CM) long.I hope to collect strips from all over the world. Your strip does not have to be local – think global. I’d love to have map strips from your travels.You can send as many strips as you wish (from different places).It is fine to fold your strips and tuck them into a small envelope.The paper needs to be in good condition so that I can weave it – no brittle maps please.Write the place that your map represents and a “vision for our world” on the back of your strip. Use any medium you like that does not bleed through to the other side, and write in your language of choice. Add doodles or drawings if you wish.Include your name and e-mail address on a separate sheet in the envelope so that I can credit you and keep in touch about the project.

Send your strips to: Helen Hiebert Studio, 113 Mill Loft St. Unit C213, Edwards, CO 81632 by April 15, 2023.

Save the rest of your map – I’ll be hosting a free zoom workshop to teach you how to make a unique weaving in the near future.

This is a global community project – please tell your friends. Let’s see if we can get a map strip from each corner of the earth!

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It’s official: The Guinness World Record for farthest-flying paper aircraft now belongs to two real-deal Boeing aerospace engineers. The record setters studied origami and aerodynamics for months, putting in 400 to 500 hours of creating different prototypes to try to design a plane that could fly higher and longer.

 

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Wowza! Check out these paper effigies by a father/son team – one of seven artisans still making paper effigies on the island of Malaysia. They create everything from full-sized BMWs and iPhones, to 10-foot-tall mansions. Then, during a traditional Chinese memorial service to honor the dead, all of it goes up in flames.

Koh Eng Keat and his father often build elaborate papier-mâché mansions, like this one.

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How fun is this? From book butlers to library sleepovers: 10 great UK places to stay for book lovers. This one, owned by bookbinder Rachel Hazell, has book-themed decor, with book art on the walls, a library of modern Scottish literature and a writing desk. I interviewed Rachel on Paper Talk back in 2018 when her book Bound came out.

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Friends, I have sad news to share. Gordon Fluke, who was known for his expertise in letterpress, papermaking and book arts, passed away after an illness on January 24, 2023.  A talented artist, Gordon was the owner of J.D. Grahame Cracker Press in Santa Fe, a small private press focused on working with hand-set type and hand-bound works of art. Please join me in making a donation to help offset a travel insurance claim that was denied and has compounded this tragedy. Read more and donate here.

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Paper TidbitsThe Red Cliff Paper Retreat is an annual week-long event in my Colorado studio, August 21-25. This year, we’re focusing on Paper Panels: book pages, screen and lampshade panels, wall pieces, and more.Some of you contributed roots to my sculpture Mother Tree, and many of you have seen her on view, first in Portland and then as she traveled around the country. She is now at the Museum of Motherhood (yes, a museum about motherhood exists) in St. Petersburg, FL. I met the founder of the museum, Joy Rose, all the way back in 2010, right after I finished Mother Tree, and we’ve been talking ever since. They intend to purchase her to remain on site, and you can help! Thanks to those of you who have donated – we’re getting close!

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Papermaking Series: Embossing

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Featured this week in my Studio shop:

The Art of Papercraft, Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, Water Paper Time, a film download, and The Papermaker’s Companion.

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