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Sustainability in Chaos

The Sunday Paper #449

February 26, 2023

I’m starting a new community project, and you’re invited to take part!

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 plan to collect strips of paper with messages from participants from 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

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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How cool is this? Since 2015, the arts nonprofit Visual AIDS has celebrated Valentine’s Day with women living with HIV through LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN (LPW), a grassroots initiative that uses the holiday as a backdrop for activism and advocacy through community kinship and artistry. With the help of Brooklyn-based paper-making mill Dieu Donné, LPW has invited artists, activists, and community members to design hand-crafted Valentine’s Day cards to distribute internationally to women living with HIV.

A photo of two workshop attendees learning the craft of handmade paper-making at the Dieu Donné workshop. (Image courtesy Dieu Donné)

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I am co-jurying the North American Hand Papermaker’s next juried exhibition: Sustainability in Chaos. Artists have shown their animus in chaotic human situations in different ways, such as through visualizations, music, poetry, photography, etc. They depict it in dream-like abstractions, express it in realistic depictions of life, inform the mind, or convey their empathy through art. I hope you’ll submit an entry.

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This is a great series of photos showing an in-depth tutorial on paper-making from natural fibers, in this case from banana stalks. Anupam Chakraborty at Nirupama Academy of Handmade Paper in Kolkata, India, introduced participants to the magic of creating sheets.

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This is a fun article about artists using art (in the form of paper) as art therapy. There’s a great video about various suminagashi marbling techniques by Rhonda Barrett (the second artist featured).

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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.Have you had a chance to listen to my interview with Andrew Dewar on Paper Talk?Applications are open for a Project Researcher: Physical Accessibility in Book Arts (funded) at the Center for Book Arts, NYC.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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In the Studio

My month-long online class, Weave Through Winter, is wrapping up on Tuesday. Here are a few of my favorite weavings – ones I created (you can see all of them on my instagram @helenhiebert). I’ll be sharing more from class participants in the coming weeks. It is always an amazing and intense experience.

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Papermaking Series: Loading the Beater

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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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Lanterns of Hope

The Sunday Paper #448

February 19, 2023

The inaugural Tropic Bound Book Fair is taking place right now in Miami. I’m delighted to be represented by a couple of dealers who are there, since I am not. It is awesome to know that there is a growing interest in artist’s books. I’m so lucky to have friends who notice my books and send me photos. Here’s Prism at Lux Mentis Booksellers booth, and I know that you can see it as well as Intensio at 23 Sandy‘s booth. Best of luck to everyone at the show!

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Andrew Dewar on Paper Talk. Dewar was born in Toronto in 1961, and has degrees in Journalism, Japanese Studies, and Library Science. He has lived in Japan since 1988.  Since completing his Ph.D. studies at Keio University in Tokyo, he has taught at several colleges, and for the past decade has  been principal of Tokai Daiichi Kindergarten as well as professor and Library Director at Tokai Gakuin University in Gifu, Japan. Soon after arriving in Japan, he rediscovered his childhood love of paper airplanes, and has been flying, designing, and publishing for more than three decades.  He also teaches papercraft at schools, community centers, and museums around the country.  He has more than 40 publications in English and Japanese. Enjoy our conversation!

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Luther Childs Crowell was instrumental in the development of the square-bottom foldable paper bag. He was a prolific inventor, and one of his “improvements” was a machine to fold paper bags. The townspeople of Wellfleet, MA (where Crowell spent part of his life) recently gathered to fold paper bag lanterns. They were encouraged to talk about their wishes for a more peaceful world at the Lanterns of Hope event.

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I’ve featured the work of Calvin Nicholls here on the blog before. He certainly has a way with paper! This piece makes me want to reach out and pet it.

© Calvin Nicholls, as seen on Colossal

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This is a great story about a company in India that is providing sustainable employment to rural women. Itsy Bitsy is a scrapbooking company and the biggest consumer of handmade paper in the country.

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Paper TidbitsThe Red Cliff Paper Retreat is an annual week-long event in my Colorado studio, August 21-25.I’m co-jurying the North American Hand Papermaker’s 2023 exhibition, Sustainability in Chaos. Submit your work!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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In the Studio

Here’s the next short but sweet video in my Papermaking Series: Soaking Felts.

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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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Confluence of Life

The Sunday Paper #447

February 12, 2023

I’m so honored to have been inducted into the North American Hand Papermakers Hall of Papermaking Champions. The Sunday Paper has played a major role in my work in the field, and you, dear readers, keep me stoked to continue delivering it every week. Click through to read about the amazing group of people who were inducted this year. Congratulations to Lilian A. Bell, Tom Balbo, Susan Gosin, Aimee Lee, and Paul Wong!

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I met Sarah Brayer in the early 1990’s when I was working at Dieu Donné Papermill in NYC, where she would come to make art. In 2019, I had the good fortune of visiting her studio in Kyoto, Japan.

Brayer has pursued her passion for traditional washi paper since the 1980s, when she moved to Japan. To learn time-honored techniques from artisans she has made countless trips to Echizen, one of the oldest homes of washi. Her style of blending the traditional with her original vision has won her international acclaim. Recently, she received a rare chance to dedicate a fusuma-e, sliding partition paintings, to a Zen temple in Kyoto. Her 8-panel piece will be installed in the temple’s meditation space. This piece follows Brayer’s painstaking process to create a piece that will be treasured at the temple, possibly for hundreds of years. Watch the documentary piece: Confluence of Life.

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I’ve featured Polly Verity on the blog before, and here’s a new video about her work. I love how she explains that she doesn’t like to pre-plan – she likes the freshness, or spontaneity, of making folds or creases and seeing what happens.

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Need a valentine? My Woven Paper Valentine was featured in the Craft Industry Alliance Valentine’s Trends article. You’ll find a link to the YouTube tutorial there, along with some other fun Valentine’s Day ideas. I learned about Galentine’s Day in the article and have decided to host a Galentine’s Day dinner, since my hubby will be out of town.

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Jenny Sorkin interviews Melissa Potter in Bomb Magazine. Potter uses hand papermaking as feminist eco-critical social practice.

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Paper TidbitsThe Red Cliff Paper Retreat is filling up. Will you join us for a week in Colorado in August?If you’re in the Denver area, I’m teaching a workshop at Anythink York Street Library on March 11th. You’ll get to experience my lantern Step Into the Light, which currently on view.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!

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In the Studio

Here’s the next short but sweet video in my Papermaking Series: Draining Tub.

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Colorful Colorado!

The Sunday Paper #446

February 5, 2023

The Red Cliff Paper Retreat is one of my longest running programs (I’ve lost count, but I think this is year 8) and one of the few events I host in my studio.  We’re gathering again for a week of late summer paper fun (August 21-25) and this year the theme 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. Explore these ideas as you create unique paper objects with a dozen like-minded creatives.

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Every year, the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center hosts an exhibition called The Illustrated Accordion. Of course it’s best to view books in person, but you can also see the show online.

MaryBeth Boone, ”SWIFT Encounters,” Floating Accordion book of handmade and Mohawk Superfine papers. Relief and pressure prints with Garamond type were letterpress printed. Painted papyrus adorns the covers, 2022, $160, 4 1/8″x12″x2″, Greensboro, NC, @PurplePumpkinPress, www.marybethboone.com

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Remember telephones with cords and phone books? Bernie Kaminski’s nostalgic papier-mâché sculptures are out of this world.

As seen on Colossal, © Bernie Kaminski, courtesy of Turn Gallery

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Paper flowers seem to be all the rage these days, but I haven’t seen anything quite like these. Arnold Drake turns paper napkins into beautiful flowers and brings joy to people in coffee shops around Portland as they watch him make his art.

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This is a fascinating episode about a variety of uses of cardboard in Japan on NHK World Japan.

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Paper TidbitsHave you had a chance to listen to my interview with Megan Singleton on Paper Talk?InterOcean Studio in Denver is hosting a fun Valentine making event on 2/12.This looks like it will be an amazing exhibition in Taiwan. You can submit work!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!

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In the Studio

Here’s the next video in my Papermaking Series: Pressing.

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The Future is Folded

The Sunday Paper #445

January 29, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Megan Singleton on Paper Talk. Singleton is a practicing artist, educator, and mother located in St. Louis, Missouri. The investigation of ecological relationships within society and the landscape is the basis of her work. As an interdisciplinary artist, she creates works that resonate with the materiality and rhythms of the natural world. Her creative practice intertwines sculpture, handmade paper, found objects, photography, and books arts. Singleton received her MFA in sculpture from Louisiana Sate University and her BFA in Photography from Webster University in St.Louis. She actively exhibits and was the recipient of the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship Grant, the Smelser-Vallion Visiting Artist Fellowship in Taos, NM and has participated in Artist Residencies across the US.

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This looks like a wonderful community art installation. In anticipation of the April 22, 2023 (aka earth day) opening of the new Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, contributions are sought for “Art Garden,” a community-built art installation that will shower the AMFA grounds at MacArthur Park with thousands of origami lotuses. All Arkansans are welcome to take part, but many of the 11,000 estimated participants will come from the 67 schools and community partners that have been invited to get involved.

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I’m thankful to readers who alert me to paper happenings! Origami made the cover story of the February issue of National Geographic. As far as I can tell from a sneak peak – a reader/magazine subscriber is sending me her issue – several of the items featured in the article have been featured on the blog and podcast: (such as Robert J. Lang and Airgami masks).

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Florian Weber built a full-scale McLaren F1 car constructed solely from sheets of paper. “When I started my journey as Paperlegend, I created 1:8 scale paper sculptures of legendary cars, but I had always dreamt of creating a full-scale paper sculpture of a race car.”

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Here’s the next video in my Papermaking Series: Straining Pulp.

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Check out this beautiful video of papermaking in China. You have to watch to the end for a fun plot twist!

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Paper Tidbits23 Sandy Gallery is curating a juried exhibition with the theme of Dreams. Submit your work!The Red Cliff Paper Retreat, one of the few events I hold in my Colorado studio, is now open for registration. Join us for five days in paper heaven!I get a lot out of my membership in the Craft Industry Alliance, including discounts several services that I use. If you run a craft business, you might consider joining.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!

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In the Studio

It is exciting to see an online class take shape. Weave Through Winter attracts beginners, as well as participants who have taken the course as many as four times! I enjoy weaving every day with the group (this is my fifth time) and will be sharing my daily weavings on Instagram.

Sarah M, who is a repeat participant says: As I wove everyday, I started seeing possibilities for paper. I like working with reclaimed papers. I shop at SCRAP, a local creative reuse store where I find maps, envelopes, discarded drawings, wallpaper, calendars, etc. I grabbed a poster from a power pole and delaminated cardboard. Experiments with all kinds of materials flowed from the daily practice. I recommend Weave Through Winter and would take it again.

Weave Through Winter begins on February 1st. You can still sign up!

One of my 2022 Weave Through Winter Weavings. Do you recognize that profile?

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A Paper Weaving Journey

The Sunday Paper #444

January 22, 2022

Paper weaving has been a long-time passion and exploration of mine, and I’m excited to be teaching my popular online class, Weave Through Winter, for the fifth year in a row. We create a weaving every day during the month of February, as we develop a daily practice involving challenge, creativity and adventure. Each year, I learn so much about my own practice as I guide the group with weekly video tutorials, daily notes, prompts and inspiration, in a place to connect with a supportive artistic community. And I’m delighted to share some great news – I will be writing a book, tentatively called, “A Paper Weaving Journey,” that is based on this course! More on that as it develops – for now, I’m focused on Weave Through Winter. I hope you’ll consider joining us!

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I went to see Sammy Seung-min Lee’s current exhibition, Taking Root, at the Denver Botanic Gardens last weekend (on view through 2/5). Seung-min Lee explores the immigrant experience through cast paper sculptures of food and flora. What a treat to get a tour with the artist.

Jill Powers, Sammy Seung-min Lee, Helen Hiebert

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Check out the contemplation bowls of Cecelia Levy from old book pages. The idea for a sculptural form typically occurs to Levy first. “I then search for the right paper quality,” she says. “Third comes the content of the book, which I take into account in the piece somehow. Any genre works.”

Contemplation Bowls (2013) by Cecilia Levy (Credit: Hans Bjurling)

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Wowza! Layla May Arthur assembles elaborate architectural spaces and visual narratives from paper, focusing on the interplay between light and shadow in intricate, three-dimensional dioramas that emphasize storytelling in window displays, brand identities, and gallery presentations.

As seen on Colossal: “Shop Window Set Design for Mary Jane Schoenenboetiek” (2021), paper sculpture

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Here’s the next video in my Papermaking Series: Moulds & Deckles.

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To mark the launch of Netflix’s 2023 Lunar New Year collection, Malaysian paper-cutting artist Eten Teo has created an intricate piece highlighting a family’s Lunar New Year celebrations.

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Paper TidbitsThe Red Cliff Paper Retreat, one of the few events I hold in my Colorado studio, is now open for registration. Join us for five days in paper heaven!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!

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In the Studio

I am working on a woven, inflatable globe. The tricky part is that an inflatable can’t have holes, and these panels are filled with holes due to weaving. I’m currently coating them with matte medium, which I’m hoping will seal the holes.

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Pattern and Flow

The Sunday Paper #443

January 15, 2022

I’m venturing into Youtube, ya’ll. I see a surging interest in hand papermaking and my two how-to books about papermaking (see images at the bottom of this post) are still in print after all of these years. And since I’ve been filming videos for my online courses, I thought I might as well take a stab at sharing how I make paper. I always like to say that making paper is one third set up, one third making, and one third clean up, so there will be videos in all three areas. What struck me when I first started making paper by hand was how many different approaches there are to each step in the process. These videos show my techniques, but I hope to hear about your methods as well (in the Youtube comments). People watching the videos now and into the future can learn from you and from me! Here are the first two in the series: The Deckle Box and Pulp Stenciling.

In case you haven’t seen this, I was on Sesame Street way back in the day (1995 or so).

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The Book Arts in Venice program is scheduled to go forward in 2023. There are two spots left, so sign up soon to join us in Italy! We have extended the application deadline until January 31. Travel to Northern Italy to work in traditional printing and letterpress studios and tour historic libraries and museums. Work at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice to create drypoint images, then travel to Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione in Cornuda, one of the largest typography museums in Europe, to print a letterpress book.All levels of experience are welcome with introductory instruction in the studio. Participants will stay in shared apartments in the heart of Venice and a restored 16th century villa surrounded by a prosecco vineyard in Cornuda.

This is a sponsored post: The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center (KBAC) is a nonprofit organization in Kalamazoo, MI, that practices, teaches, and promotes the collaborative arts of the book including hand papermaking, printmaking, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and creative writing. KBAC Executive Director Jeff Abshear was a Fulbright Scholar to Italy in 2007 to study book arts in Venice. He has returned each year to teach workshops and lead university study abroad groups to work in professional printing studios throughout Italy and Northern Europe. He is fluent in Italian and has extensive experience traveling in Italy, with in-depth knowledge of Venice where he has lived and worked many times. Jeff will be an experienced guide and the principal instructor for the program.

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I’m a member of the Movable Book Society, and every so often they make an issue of their newsletter free to anyone. That’s the case with the current issue, and it has two articles about the trip I took to Italy last summer: one by a participant, Ron Shaull, and one by an instructor, Carol Barton. Click through to enjoy the issue! There some other great features. If you like what you see, consider joining!

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Friend and colleague, Mindell Dubansky, wrote the newly released book Pattern and Flow, which documents the centuries-old practice of decorating paper that was revived by American artists in the 1960’s. I just received my copy and the reproductions are amazing, not to mention the history and stories that Dubansky shares. Dubansky (Museum Librarian for Preservation at the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art), has also curated “Pattern and Flow”, which opens at The Grolier Club in NYC this week and features a decade-by-decade look at the field through 150 objects from the Watson Library collection. Congrats, Mindy!

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Check out these unusual book works by Connie Goelz Schmitt, created from vintage book parts. Ooh la la!

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Paper TidbitsHave you had a chance to listen to my interview with Simon Arizpe on Paper Talk?I’ve started a daily practice on Instagram. I’m posting a photo, along with a few thoughts, about a sheet of paper in my archive. And while I’m at it, I’m organizing the my physical paper collection.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!

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In the Studio

Today’s the last day to join The Paper Year until April. Here’s a round up of the projects we created in 2022 by members: Barb Musial, Claudia Waruch, Suzi Banks Baum, Elaine Chu, Terry Englehart, Carol Sakaji-Lee, Sarah Morgan, Whitney Wolf, Marguerite Katchen, Clara DeMott, June Tyler and Liz Teviotdale.

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Featured in my Studio Shop this week: The Papermaker’s Companion + Papermaking with Garden Plants.

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Let’s Go Fly a Kite!

The Sunday Paper #442

January 8, 2022

I’ve had a whirlwind first week of the year, how about you? I have so many fun things to share with you this week!

January is when I open annual enrollment for The Paper Year, my yearlong online program (deadline to join is 1/15/23) and Weave Through Winter, my month-long online class (registration deadline is 2/1/23). Thank you to those of you who have signed up! If you’re interested in either class, please click on the images below to read more, watch the videos and register.

It is exciting to offer these programs to a growing number of international participants; we are developing a wonderful paper community; and I learn so much!

 

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Paula B. Krieg and Susan Joy Share are teaching a dynamic 10-week online course, Zhen Xian Bao in Depth, through San Diego Book Arts (SDBA). It explores many variations of this traditional Chinese folk art whose inner workings are made of collapsible paper boxes that reveal layer upon layer of hidden compartments. The format is ideal for storing treasured items or becoming an artwork on its own. Classes will address historical and contemporary applications of this versatile art practice. Sessions begin in February and run through early April 2023 on Wednesday afternoons, 2:30PM-5PM Pacific Time. SDBA offers a substantial discount to members who register before February 2, 2023. Click here for more information and to register.

This is a sponsored post: Paula B. Krieg and Susan Joy Share have been exploring book arts and teaching together for over 30 years. Their joint ventures include NY Center for Book Arts, Penland School of Craft, Franklin Furnace, the Metropolitan Museum and the NY Historical Society. They are thrilled to be teaching this 10-week class with San Diego Book Arts.

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Simon Arizpe on Paper Talk, an award winning pop-up book designer, paper engineer and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. His work received the 2018-2019 Meggendorfer Prize, the highest honor in pop-up book design, as well as the Award of Excellence from the Society of Illustrators. A graduate of The Pratt Institute, Arizpe worked for over 10 years as the senior paper engineer at several of the top pop-up book studios in the world before opening his own pop-up book studio in 2014.

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These paper mushroom sculptures by Ann Wood are so realistic! I love that she is an avid gardener and “grows models of what she creates in paper during the summer.”

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The International Kite Festival is taking place in Ahmedabad, India this week, based on the G20 theme of ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’. Wouldn’t it be fun to be there! Read the captions underneath each photo at the link to learn so much more about kite making in India. Some of the kites are made with paper.

Kite makers in Gujarat are busy ahead of the festival. Here’s a picture from a kite-making workshop in Kalupur, Ahmedabad, ahead of the Uttarayan, the International Kite Festival. (Express Photo: Nirmal Harindran)

Check out this unique accordion book created by Peter and Donna Thomas (the covers are a real accordion)!

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Paper TidbitsDid you take a peek at Helen’s 100 Papery Picks (last week’s blog post), featuring  tools, tutorials, innovative paper artists and more?I’ve started a daily practice on Instagram. I’m posting a photo, along with a few thoughts, about a sheet of paper in my archive. And while I’m at it, I’m organizing the my physical paper collection.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!

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In the Studio

When I had an intern here in November, we shot a bunch of video footage about various aspects of the papermaking process. I’m excited to share the first in a series of Papermaking videos: The Deckle Box. I hope you’ll check it out (this one is 5 minutes). You can also subscribe to my Youtube channel and look for upcoming videos on topics ranging from beater maintenance and keeping the studio dry to production papermaking tips and the restraint drying system. I’m looking forward to hearing what you think!

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Featured in my Studio Shop this week: The Papermaker’s Companion + a framed copy of The Way It Is (returned to the studio and needs a new home).

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Helen’s 100 Papery Picks 2022

Happy New Year! Whether you’re just discovering this blog or you’ve followed it from the beginning (we’re coming up on nine years) I truly appreciate your ongoing support! Thank you for following along on this paper journey.

This is the second annual end of the year list of 100 of my favorite papery things – from tools to tutorials, inspirations to online explorations – I hope you enjoy reading through it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

I would love to know your favorites too – please leave your comments below. You’ll notice that several of the recommended items came from other paper lovers this year. Thank you!

Feel free to share this list with your paper-loving friends. Enjoy!

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Paper: Figuring out which paper will work best for a particular project is tricky, but it can be a delightful journey. There are so many qualities – thickness, opacity, foldability – to name a few. My advice: try it and see if it works. If it does, it becomes a favorite paper. If it doesn’t, you learned something!

Paper Connection International has a monthly subscription club called Paper Pastiche. Sign up and receive 8 different papers every month to get your juices pumping and get you out of your comfort zone.Oblation Papers & Press is a classy stationery shop in Portland, Oregon, where they produce a broad range of house-made paper goods. There’s plenty more to explore on their site as well as in their brick and mortar shop.I love these wrapping paper books published by Pepin in a wide variety of themed designs. The sheets are folded in quarters and bound into books with a perforated edge. Tear them out and unfold!Hook Pottery Paper has a lovely variety of handmade sheets (many from home-grown fibers) available through Colophon Book Arts Supply. One of my favorites is their Moon Paper, which looks extraterrestrial.I bought some papyrus bookmarks to make into paper jewelry. It was good quality paper and made really beautiful earrings. Many people thought they were made from ivory – the paper has the same look and texture as mastodon ivory. Recommended by Bev Frey.Loose Ends advertises itself as uncommon materials for uncommon artists, and they really do have unusual papers, most of which are small batches from independent papermakers in the USA and abroad. They also sell unusual ribbons, ephemera, and organic textiles. Recommended by Marguerite Blythe Katchen.Shizen Design has a large variety of handmade papers – fabricated and printed by hand in India – that are widely distributed in America. They offer a selection ranging from small packs of watercolor papers to decorative paper packs and full-size sheets in unique patterns. This is their Amazon link, which gives you a nice overview, but I recently picked up some large sheets at Two Hands Paperie in Boulder.Aitoh distributes premium origami papers made in Japan.Paperphine is a cool paper product – a paper twine from Austria – which is spun onto lovely old wooden spools. It comes in a variety of fun colors and thicknesses.Papillon Press digs into the past, like design archaeologists. They look at old books and objects to find designs and beautiful papers that they recreate or use as inspiration for new designs. In 2022, they expanded to open a retail shop in Grand Rapids, MI.

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Techniques: There are so many ways to transform paper, and I am fascinated with all of them! Take a walk on the wild side with paper by following the links below – you might just end up in a paper vortex.

Check out these incredible paper snowflakes. I love this tag line: “The only ingredients are scissors, paper and choices”. Recommended by Akua Lezli Hope.Steph Rue creates beautiful patchwork paper panels, based on the traditional Korean fabric technique called bojagi. Rue contributed a bojagi curtain project for my book, The Art of Papercraft , and I see that she’s teaching a workshop at The Penland School of Craft next summer.Artist, papermaker and paper investigator Amy Richard is teaching her popular and thorough Japanese Papermaking with Kozo workshop online. Class begins on February 7th.Plantable Seed Paper seems to be everywhere these days. Here’s a super simple tutorial from Arnold Grummer’s on how to make it with TP.Cathryn Miller created a new series of papery Advent tutorials for 2022. Here’s the index to all 25.Ann Martin of allthingspaper.net thrives on sharing paper craft projects and techniques via a running list of seasonally arranged, on-site tutorials complete with images. You’ll find it here.This is an informative article about papel picado and how the paper cutting tradition has changed over the years. For example, the designs – which used to be cut in fig-bark paper – are now cut in colorful tissue paper.This is a fascinating history of paper fans.If you’re into pop-ups, Duncan Birmingham’s youtube channel will captivate you for hours of learning.I love paper weaving, but haven’t dabbled into the dimensional paper weaving of Paper Matrix. Ooh, la la!

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Online Resources: I’m still a fan of actual books, paper, and libraries, but there’s no arguing that the internet allows us to share and learn about things we might never discover in the analog world. Here are ten blogs and organizations that spread the love of paper.

OrigamiUSA, the national organization for the sharing of origami, has an online shop with an amazing array of origami paper, books and supplies that can be used for origami and other creative paper arts. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s they present the “#2-to-be-seen Holiday Tree in NYC” at the American Museum of Natural History, a must see! Recommended by MaryAnn Scheblein-Dawson.The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) is a membership organization for paper artists. They are hosting an in-person gathering in Dresden, Germany in 2023.Hand Papermaking’s print and online publications chronicle the finest work in the field of hand papermaking, while advancing the scholarship and production of handmade paper and paper art. The biannual print journal includes tipped-in paper samples; how cool is that?!North American Hand Papermakers is an organization that brings together people interested in hand papermaking, to encourage sharing of practical, historical, and artistic knowledge about the craft.Peace Paper Project is an international community-arts initiative that utilizes traditional papermaking as a form of trauma therapy, social engagement, and community activism.I always enjoy watching Trish Witkowski’s Super Cool Fold of the Week. She focuses on printed materials, but many of the folds and techniques she shares could be applied to book arts and paper crafts.Jade Quek keeps tabs for us on everything book and paper-related with her Book & Paper Arts Calendar. You can sign up for her monthly e-newsletter at the link.The Movable Book Society is a nonprofit organization that provides a forum for artists, book sellers, book producers, collectors, curators, and others to share enthusiasm and exchange information about pop-up and movable books.Emma of Gathering Beauty offers a variety of paper craft tutorials. Recommended by Susan Buhler-Maki.Kelli Anderson specializes in book-like things and paper devices.

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Books/Magazines/Articles: My collection of how-to books about paper continues to grow, and I was fortunate to have an intern this fall who catalogued them on Library Thing. Here are ten favorites.

Like meditation or journaling, making collage can be an avenue for self-reflection and artistic exploration. In Collage Your Life, artist and teacher Melanie Mowinski teaches a variety of core techniques. Fun fact: Mowinski will teach a workshop in my Paper Year program in April.Creative Packaging: One Piece Packaging Solutions, is a new book by paper aficionado Paul Jackson.Though not strictly paper arts, Uppercase is a great magazine for design/art/craft communities. In addition to the periodical, Uppercase also publishes compilations called encyclopedias – the next one – Paper and Pulp – will come out in 2023. Recommended by Tess Hall.I had a lovely conversation on Paper Talk with the publisher/author and illustrator of Read Island, a children’s book featuring cut-paper illustrations. Nicole Magistro and Alice Feagan live and work right here in the Vail Valley of Colorado.Endpapers, by Jennifer Savran Kelly, is coming out early in 2023 and looks like a good read: a gender queer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, her ill-fitting relationship, and her artistic block, discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author.I loved The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. The heroine is a papermaker! The book has been made into a TV series.I enjoyed this article by Brea Black who took a workshop recently at InterOcean Studio called Papermaking from Plant to Page. There are so many interesting tidbits in her recount of the workshop: a visit to  The Rocky Mountain Land Library , the history of InterOcean Studio, making plant paper; and wow, I didn’t realize that you could take workshops on  Creativebug  with a library card (Black is a librarian in Topeka, KS, so her link is through her library, but I’m guessing other libraries offer this).Radha Pandey edited the book, Paper and Colour, Dyes and Dyeing Around the World, which was recently published by The Legacy Press.This is an incredible pop-up book based on Euclid’s Geometry by Sjoerd Hofstra. It’s near and dear to my heart, because I made a book based on Euclid’s geometry too.Need help getting into the creative groove? I wrote this article: Tips and Tools for Creating a Successful 100 Day Project  for the Craft Industry Alliance. I talk about a 100 Day Project I did with paper weaving.

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One-Sheet Wonders. This is the premise of my newest book. The Art of Papercraft, which shares all the things that you can make with a sheet of paper (well not all of them)! Here are 10 one-sheet wonders that caught my eye.

Templatemaker.nl creates templates for all kinds of polygons that can be folded from a single sheet (you can plug your own dimensions into their formulas).The Sheet’s A Stage – a project for all ages designed by Paula Beardell Krieg that is featured in The Art of Papercraft. Krieg wrote about the project on her blog Playful Bookbinding and Paper Works.Most of us have seen and heard of folding 1000 paper cranes to make a dream come true. Check out these miniature paper cranes by Naoki Onogawa that adorn the branches of bonsai trees.Goran Konjevod folds sheets of paper infused with encaustic paint in amazing ways. He’s participated in the 50-50 Show at Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica for a couple of years  now, creating 50 new pieces each year and used a few of my abaca sheets in his 2022 collection.Did you know that Hans Christian Andersen made paper cuts? He enchanted party guests of all ages with improvised stories as he snipped away, unfolding the sheet at tale’s end, a souvenir for some lucky young listener. Approximately 400 survive, primarily in the Odense City Museums’ large collection.These paper puppets are so cute! Learn how to fold them, add facial features, and put on a show!Polly Verity’s folds of facial expressions are truly clever.A diagnostic test that relies on a strip of filter paper and some cunning origami can quickly distinguish between different variants of SARS-CoV-2.You know I’m a proponent of paper, but sometimes it makes sense to argue against it. My husband’s family of origin used paper towels; mine didn’t. He purchases them; I don’t. Here’s a round-up of The Eight Best Alternatives to Paper Towels (hopefully my husband will read this).Here’s a uniquely folded one-sheet wonder by Gina Pisello, a Red Lantern.

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Artists / Designers /Tinkerers: I once thought I might run out of people to feature on the blog, but I’m convinced that this is a never-ending list. Enjoy these 10 and I’ll introduce you to 10 more next year. 

I love this promotional video by Paper and Pixel in Australia. Check out how Jean Kropper is turning paper into unique promotional materials for her clients.At just 16 years old, Valentin Frechka decided to study alternative sources to cellulose production in order to reduce deforestation. He explored options like grass or straw until one day, he noticed the leaves in the forest where he lives in the Ukraine. Re-Leaf Paper has perfected their take on the paper bag, which are now sold worldwide.The Mingei International Museum looks like a fun place to visit. Check out these wonderful paper bag hats by moses.I met Travis Nolan when he was about 15 years old at a papermaking/origami event with Paper For Water in Dallas, TX. Travis is now studying  biology and geology (with a goal of becoming a paleontologist) at Southern Methodist University. He’s an origami olympian.Sandro Tiberi announces on his website: “I do not make paper, I mold desires. It is not paper, it is the substance of dreams.“ Recommended by Nelia Palma.Airgami masks are not paper, but they are a one-sheet wonder. Robert Lang (an origami master) helped Richard Gordon create a computer program to automate the creasing for these masks, which have won several awards.Charles Young started creating architectural models in paper as a daily project and continued, with some breaks, until he had 1000 models. All of the models are made using 200gsm watercolour paper and PVA glue. His daily method allows for rapid construction and exploration of diverse areas of architecture, pushing the possibilities of paper.When dumped in landfills, paper is one of the worst contributors to greenhouse gasses. Two brothers in Kenya are saving old newspapers from that fate by turning them into pencils that feel like they’re made with real wood. Not only that, but they are donating many of their pencils to schools.Watercolour artist Vaishali Chudasama and miniature paper cut artist Nayan Shrimaliis are creating an ongoing series of 100 miniature paper artworks, marking the importance of and appreciation for pollinators and all kinds of natural creatures.Oh my gosh! Check out these shadows on paper that inspire fun illustrations by Belgian artist and filmmaker Vincent Bal.

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Tutorials + Classes: There are endless possibilities for what you can make from/with/of/on paper. Here are just a few ideas.

Hattifant teaches you to make simple and addictive paper globes from three strips of paper. Recommended by Susan Buhler-Maki.Cecelia Louie of Paper Zen offers tutorials on quilling and many other folding and cutting paper projects. Recommended by Susan Buhler-Maki.This re-usable pillow box is inspired by Japanese furoshiki – a container that can be used a number of times. Here’s a printable pdf for a furoshiki design by Susan Niner Janes.I hosted three free mini Zoom workshops this past year. Catch the replays and create your own: 1. Pop-Up Landscape Card 2. Spinning Flower Card and 3. Cube Light.What the heck is a hexakaidecagon? Learn how to make one!Domestika offers a Design Your Own Paper Lamp course, by paper-folding artist Kate Colin. Recommended by Nelia Palma.I love how Jo Nakashima creates uniquely colored origami designs with double-sided sheets of paper. You’ll find detailed instructions on folding your own versions of intricate designs, but take note of this warning: “Although I call it ‘simplified,’ it doesn’t mean it is simple: it is just simpler than the original version, but actually it is still a bit complex.”Paper engineer Shawn Sheehy has a plethora of original pop-up cards you can make in his online shop.Paula Beardell Krieg shared this clever Cube with Curves recently. I enjoy following her paper explorations on her Bookzoompa blog.The Paper & Book Intensive is like summer camp for book and paper artists. Registration opens on January 1st. Don’t delay! This event sells out quickly.

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Inspiring Projects: It is truly amazing to witness the ideas that people come up with to contemplate what is happening in our world and to make it a better place via paper.

This is a touching project that I’ve written about before. It is becoming all too poignant. Soul Boxes fold gun-violence grief into origami boxes.This is an intriguing project: an art exhibition consisting of 1,000 origami paper cranes and 333 Japanese haiku poems that will grow and flock month by month. The year-long project related to Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee.Peter Jacobs has created a collage from daily newspapers every single day, uninterrupted, for nearly 18 straight years.Wowza! James Nolan Gandy created this hand-built drawing machine that makes fascinating mechanical drawings (on paper).I love the sentiments of Samuelle Green, who recycles hundreds of thousands of discarded sheets of paper into millions of hand-rolled cones and builds fantastic cave installations.Labora is a company that creates handmade paper cards, and their seed papers are beautifully printed and filled with thoughtfulness: “Our mission is to encourage people to share positive messages around the world. We make cards that inspire people to keep in touch in a thoughtful, personal, and meaningful way. Combining illustrations with calligraphy and typography, we hope to add some beauty to the world.”An inventor at 3M has come up with an alternative to bubble wrap. Check out  Cush ion Lock, which is made from paper.Did you ever wonder where the archives of artists end up? Shereen LaPlantz (1947-2003) was an internationally recognized book artist, basket weaver, author, and teacher. Her archives are at the University of Puget Sound, and you can learn a lot from this catalog entry.I love this Marshmallow Seat by Yiran Li Design – the upholstery is handmade paper. Scroll down at the link to see her process photos.Andrew Dewar invents clever paper toys. These ramp walking dinosaurs (propelled by gravity) are amazing!

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Videos: If a picture is worth a thousand words, what does that make a video worth? Here are 10 videos in a variety of formats that I think are valuable to watch.

Paper on Skin invites Australian and international artists to embrace the challenge of designing a wearable garment made from at least 80% paper. This competition has been going on for 10 years, and in 2022 they created a Paper on Skin Film documenting all 34 finalists’ garments.This a lovely video that captures the transition from traditional to contemporary paper in Japan: New Directions for Washi: The Sustainable, Elegant Use of Paper. This video is narrated in French, but you don’t have to speak it to see the amazing paper works in the exhibition, Paperholic: Obsession Paper. Recommended by Nelia Palma.BBC Radio has a show called Free Thinking, and recently there was an episode about paper. The riddle at the beginning is fantastic! The host, Laurence Scott, explores the cultural and social history of paper, from the Chinese Han Dynasty in 105 AD to the 20th-century workplace with several guests with an expertise in paper.I love this! A man and his daughter used to go to Pearl Beach every day to spend time there, amazed by the beauty of the city’s skyline. His daughter, also passionate about origami, had the idea: “What if I built an origami the same size as the huge buildings of the city?” During Covid, Rohith Jagadisha reimagined Dubai at the inspiration of his daughter, and the resulting video went viral.I completed a community installation, Step Into the Light, that was on view during the summer of 2022 at Anything Wright Farms, a library in Denver. This video documents the construction of the giant lantern.This is a great overview of  and how one village is trying to keep it alive. I included some Zo paper in one of my curated paper collections in 2021, so some of you have a sheet of paper from this village!This is a great video about the Akari Light Sculptures that Isamu Noguchi designed for the town of Mino, Japan. If you’re in NYC, make a trek across the East River to the Noguchi Museum, a wonderful sculpture garden and museum that used to be Noguchi’s studio. Peter Dahmen’s Dream Faire pop-up sculpture for the Netflix animation film “Wendell & Wild” is amazing!This video from Papayareusables (reusable paper towels) is so clever (and the soundtrack takes me down memory lane)!

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Tools & Supplies: Here’s an eclectic list of tools and supplies for papermaking and paper crafts.

You can cut perfect circles up to 6-3/4″ with this Ev-R-Round Circle Cutter. Sometimes you need bigger circles – get the extension and cut up to 15-3/4″ rounds.If you’re into paper weaving, check out this clever needle tool from Germany, where paper weaving is common in the classroom (available through Washi Arts here in the states).While you’re  on the Washi Arts site, you might be interested in this fine tip Japanese PIT glue pen for tacking down the ends of woven paper strips.Sandy Fischer is growing flax in Northern California using regenerative agricultural techniques. She is selling the flax tow (as well as other products) for artists like papermakers who are interested in using it. I have just started experimenting with it, it beats very quickly and makes a lovely, rattly, golden paper. I have also experimented with it for high-shrinkage sculpture and love it. Recommended by Michelle Wilson.Stephanie Hare makes a gorgeous line of made-to-order magnetic moulds & deckles that are designed for making multiple sheets (think wedding invitations, greeting cards, envelopes and business cards).I visited with Don Farnsworth of Magnolia Editions earlier this year, and he was couching handmade watermarked sheets onto Evolon. If you have problems with couching, this looks like a great material!There are so many Exacto knives to choose from, but I always come back to the standard #11 blade. Did you know that you can sharpen those blades?This is my go-to glue applicator, and it’s refillable!I love my Scor Pal for accurate scoring of small sheets of paper.I use this Olfa Rotary Cutter to cut both wet and dry papers.

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Helen Hiebert Studio in Red Cliff, Colorado. Photo by Red Cliff Paper Retreat participant Dell Combs.

About Helen Hiebert Studio: My interest in how things are made (from paper) keep me up to date on current paper trends, which I write about weekly on this blog. I also host the podcast Paper Talk, featuring artists and professionals who are working in the field of hand papermaking and paper art.

Discover my most popular papermaking and papercraft resources – including information about tools and supplies, how-to videos, and paper tips – all in one place by joining The Paper Advisor (it’s FREE)! You are also welcome to join my free facebook group, The Paper Studio, where we share what we’re making with paper on Flaunt it Fridays!

I run The Paper Year, an online membership program, where we explore creative paper techniques each month in a supportive community. I’m also the author of six books about paper crafts and papermaking, and I offer an annual paper retreat and host two papermaking master classes in my Red Cliff, Colorado studio each summer and fall.

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Joyeux Noël

The Sunday Paper #441

December 25, 2022

Have you seen the film Joyeux Noël? It’s a lovely and sobering holiday war drama, a fictionalized version of the Christmas truce of December 1914 in Europe.

I’m sending you warm wishes and love for a wonderful holiday weekend, however you celebrate. I’m so thankful to each and every one of you for following this blog! I’ll see you next Sunday with Helen’s 100 Paper Picks for 2022!

Enjoy this group poem we created during a Zoom event earlier this year (too good not to share a few times). Feel free to add your own line in the comments.

Paper: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… You are strongYou are suppleYou are flatYou are flexibleYou hold my thoughtsYou are colorfulYou hold my foldsI can buy you
I can make you!You kept me sane during the last two yearsYou are funYou are forgivingYou are beautifulYou help me rememberYou are natural, a piece of natureYou are versatileYou are magicalYou are resilientYou are usefulYou are sturdy and flexible at the same timeYou are softYou are irresistibleYou are tactileYou are everywhereYou are recyclableYou are addictiveYou hold my heartYou’ve captured my walletYou can become almost anythingYou inspire meI can’t live without youYou are everything

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