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This is Day 2 of 25 Days of Paper and Day 71 of my 100 x 100 Paper Weavings Project.

Here is the weaving, which is a cyanotype on handmade cotton paper woven with a circle of Brazlian Banana from Hiromi Paper.

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #71, 10″ x 8″, $100

Today, I’m featuring a pop-up artist from the UK, Elod Beregszaszi. He’s contributed a project to my upcoming book, Playing With Pop-Ups, which will be published next May.

Elod’s company, Popupology, is dedicated to the exploration of paper space. Check out his work. He’s got several DIY print and cut tutorials on his website, and he’s also done some grandiose kinetic surfaces and installations.

And for those of you in the mood for shopping, check out his pop-up jewelry.

Who is your favorite pop-up artist?________________________________________________________________

About the 25 Days of Paper: I’m going to be a crazy blogger in December, featuring cool paper products, projects, blogs, books, or papers each day. Join in the fun by reading along! I’ll also post links on my FaceBook page. Enjoy the season!

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About 100 x 100 Paper Weavings: On September 23, 2013, I started making 100 daily paper weavings. I’ll finish on New Year’s Eve!

 

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25 Days of Paper/Year 2

I’m doing another 25 Days of Paper to celebrate the season of giving by sharing the wonders of paper. Each day I’ll highlight an aspect of paper as well as one of my paper weavings (today is day #70 of 100 x 100 Paper Weavings).

I invite you to interact with me during these 25 days by sharing what you know about the topics in the comment section below.

 

I just acquired a copy of the new book On Paper, by Nicholas A. Basbanes, filled with anecdotes about this amazing material and its uses. It looks like a good read, and I’m reminded of Timothy Barrett’s book Japanese Papermaking and Papermaking by Dard Hunter as two other books that give so many details about this art and craft of paper. Basbane is not a practictioner of the craft, and I look forward to reading his perspective. Someday I hope to see a book written (or a film produced) about the artistic side of the field, with histories of those who are exploring and challenging the medium in innovative ways. The magazine, Hand Papermaking, does this well in a journal format.

What books about the history and uses of paper do you recommend?

Below are last week’s weavings (I took a day off from posting on Friday). From here on out, you’ll see just one a day.

#66

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #66, 10″ x 11″, $100

This weaving features a light green cotton handmade paper from Oblation Papers & Press in Portland and an itajame dyed paper by Kristoferson Studio in Calgary, Canada.

#67

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #67, 10′” x 8″, $100

This was one of the most challenging weavings, integrating a spiral into the rays. The papers are both from Oblation Papers & Press, the off-white features a watermark.

#68

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #68, 10″ X 8″, $100

Graphic Products Corporation/Black Ink imports this crinkled momigami paper, which I wove with a mystery paper: two points if you can identify it!

#69

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #69, 10″ x 13″, $100

Zelda Tanenbaums embossed lace paper holds a sampler: a handmade marbled paper by Linda Draper, an itajame dyed paper by Susan Kristoferson, and papers from Graphic Products Corp/Black Ink and Paper Connection International.

#70

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #70, 10″ x 8″, $100

The neutral colored paper is called pinto buckskin and is imported from Nepal by Graphic Products Corporation/Black Ink. The hand marbled paper is made by Tom Leech of Santa Fe.

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About the 25 Days of Paper: I’m going to be a crazy blogger in December, featuring cool paper products, projects, blogs, books, or papers each day. Join in the fun by reading along! I’ll also post links on my FaceBook page. Enjoy the season!

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#65, Can I Retire?

You can always view all of the 100 x 100 paper weavings in one place, by clicking here.

Today’s post is mostly visual!

#62

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #62, 8″ x 10″, $100

Handmade cotton and abaca papers with pseudo watermarks.

#63

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #63, 10″ x 8″, $100

Candy Wooding‘s paste paper and a mystery paper.

#64

A van dyke print on abaca and Hakusen paper from Hiromi Paper.

#65

A sampler of paste papers from Kristoferson Studio.

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Weaving a House

You can always view all of the 100 x 100 paper weavings in one place, by clicking here.

#59

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #59, 10″ x 8″, $100

This weaving features two papers from Graphic Products Corp/Black Ink: the Dragon Beasts paper is a handmade lokta paper (made from the fiber of the daphne plant in Nepal) which I wove with papyrus, an early substrate and technically not a true paper. True paper requires the maceration of fibers followed by sheet forming on some sort of screen. Papyrus is made by overlapping strips of the papyrus plant and pounding them so that they stick together.

#60

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #60, 14″ x 22″, $250

The background paper here is called Granite and is a handmade flax paper made at Cave Paper in Minneapolis. I received an envelope full of papers from Susan Kristoferson who makes paste papers, itajame and other decorative papers, and I chose four different purple paste papers to integrate into this weaving. Here’s the back side, which I like too.

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #60, 14″ x 22″, $250

#61

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #61, 11″ x 9″, $100

Here I integrated one of the same Kristopherson Studio paste papers with a screenprinted handmade paper from Shizen Design. I love how the swirls interact. And FYI, Shizen Design is a wholesaler so you can’t buy directly from them, but you can find their colorful collection of papers at Paper Mojo, Artist & Craftsman and Hollanders.

If you are interested in seeing all of the 100 x 100 paper weavings in one place, click here.

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A Butterfly, a Fan, an Egg & a Bottle…

First up, a quick shout out that my Shadow Lantern Kits are now available! Click here to read all about them, and feel free to spread the word. Thank you!

#55

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #55, 10″ x 10″, $100

I’m participating in something called a “Folded Form Exchange” at the College Book Art Association’s meeting in January. The instructions I received were to submit an edition of thirty-three small, folded forms that will be housed in a 6″ x 9″ x 5″ paper box. In exchange, I will receive a collection of thirty forms from fellow contributors. Exciting! I’m sorry that I don’t have an image of what I created (yet), but it is a butterfly book. Above you see the remnants of the books, which I wove together (although I don’t think you can really call this weaving). The paper is elephant hide from Talas, and the marbled paper is one of Steve Pittelkow’s (doesn’t it look like he made it to match those papers? It was a happy accident, I swear).

#56

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #56, 11″ x 8″, $100

These paper strips are a marbled paper by Tom Leech, and I wove them with strips of a batiked paper that I made in a class with Patty Grass at the Newport Paper Arts Festival back in the 90′s. The technique was so much fun: we used a white kozo paper, parafin wax, and traditional tjanting tools to apply lines of wax which resisted the Rit dye that we brushed onto the paper over the wax. We repeated these two steps several times to create layers of color, and when the paper was dry, we ironed it between sheets of newsprint to remove excess wax.

#57

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #57, 10″ x 8″, $100

This is another van dyke print that I made on handmade abaca in a workshop I co-taught with Alyssa Salomon at Penland. It was such fun to combine images in the photographic process! The background didn’t print very well (there were some trees) but I think the weaving (featuring Graphic Product Corp/Black Ink’s Melook paper, which is 100% kozo with embedded strings, brings it to life.

#58

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #58, 10″ x 8″, $100

Do you remember the other bottle image that I created (paper weaving #38)? This project is so much fun because I can use the waste from one weaving for another! This weaving features three papers: a NYC subway map, a marbled abaca paper and a light blue abaca (the strips are leftovers from the colophon for my artists’ book, Handle With Care).

 

 

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Two-Sided Weaving

Star Shadow Screen, © Helen Hiebert 2013

Let’s talk about something other than weavings for a moment! I’ve spent the week getting ready to launch a new product, the Shadow Lantern KIt. This is one of the first projects I designed for my book Paper Illuminated (and the lantern is versatile, unfolding to become a screen, as you see above). I’m excited to share the kits with you. Here’s a sneak peak of the three designs that I willl be rolling out early next week.

#52

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #52, 10″ x 6″, $100

I am flattered by the generosity of the paper donors for this project. Shizen Design sent me a box full of at least 100 papers. Not big sheets, but small 4″ x 10″ pieces that are easy to integrate into weavings! I decided to cut strips of six of their silkscreened designs.

#53

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #53, 12″ x 8″, $100

This is a Thai soft metallic momigami from Graphic Products Corporation/Black Ink. I love the bronze metallic color (the paper is brushed with acrylic paint) contrasting with the black pigmented kozo/mulberry paper. The name Momigami means crumpled (momi) paper (gami) in Japanese, where this papermaking technique originated. I wove this with strips of Hiromi Paper’s Red Cedar, a paper-thin wood veneer. This is what it looks like as a sheet:

red cedar paper veneer

#54

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #54, 10″ x 8″, $100

This is a double-sided weaving, featuring papers from, ack! I can’t figure it out. I thought they were Shizen Designs, but alas, I cannot find them in the catalog. I think I picked them up at Two Hands Paperie.

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #54 reverse, 10″ x 8″, $100



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A Two-Sided Weaving

Star Shadow Screen, © Helen Hiebert 2013

Let’s talk about something other than weavings for a moment! I’ve spent the week getting ready to launch a new product, the Shadow Lantern KIt. This is one of the first projects I designed for my book Paper Illuminated (and the lantern is versatile, unfolding to become a screen, as you see above). I’m excited to share the kits with you. Here’s a sneak peak of the three designs that I willl be rolling out early next week.

#52

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #52, 10″ x 6″, $100

I am flattered by the generosity of the paper donors for this project. Shizen Design sent me a box full of at least 100 papers. Not big sheets, but small 4″ x 10″ pieces that are easy to integrate into weavings! I decided to cut strips of six of their silkscreened designs.

#53

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #53, 12″ x 8″, $100

This is a Thai soft metallic momigami from Graphic Products Corporation/Black Ink. I love the bronze metallic color (the paper is brushed with acrylic paint) contrasting with the black pigmented kozo/mulberry paper. The name Momigami means crumpled (momi) paper (gami) in Japanese, where this papermaking technique originated. I wove this with strips of Hiromi Paper’s Red Cedar, a paper-thin wood veneer. This is what it looks like as a sheet:

red cedar paper veneer

#54

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #54, 10″ x 8″, $100

This is a double-sided weaving, featuring papers from, ack! I can’t figure it out. I thought they were Shizen Designs, but alas, I cannot find them in the catalog. I think I picked them up at Two Hands Paperie.

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #54 reverse, 10″ x 8″, $100

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And the Winner is …

Congratulations to Kath Thomas of bookbarnkat studios for winning the giveaway! Be sure to check out Kath’s link – she has just opened a new bookbinding, restoration and teaching studio in Florence, Italy, and will be announcing 2014 classes shortly.

And stay tuned, there will be more paper scraps to incorporate into another giveaway soon!

#48

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #48, 11.5″ x 11″, $100

For those of you who follow me on FB and saw this posted on Saturday, do you see the change that I made? I just couldn’t stop thinking about skyscrapers in the vertical lines and decided to add windows! This is another non-paper, which comes in a variety of colors. It is cotton viscose, which I was gifted from Shizen Design.

#49

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #49, 10″ x 8″, $100

The weaving above is another Shizen design woven with Awagami Factory‘s asarakusui lace paper in yellow. Awagami is one of the oldest hand papermaking facilities in Japan, and in 1976, Awa Washi was designated as an Intangible Cultural Property of Tokushima Prefecture. Minoru Fujimori was also selected as Master Craftsman and awarded the medal for Technical Excellence by the Japanese Ministry of Labor.

#50

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #50, 10″ x 8″, $100

Wallpaper anyone? This is a flocked wallpaper from the UK woven with Hook Pottery Paper’s amazing handmade moon paper. This is not a printed paper, it is made completely of paper pulp. Click the link to read the details.

#51!!

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #51, 10″ x 8″, $100

I’ve made it half way through this journey of 100 days and I’m into my second half. Woo hoo!

I’ve always loved houses and used to draw them as a child. I thought I’d become an architect for the longest time, but somehow that didn’t pan out (although sometimes I refer to myself as a paper architect). When I was a teen, my father offered to pay me to chisel the mortar off of a TON of bricks that were sitting under our back deck (resulting from a home remodel – I guess he couldn’t bear to throw or give those bricks away). I think he was paying a nickel a brick, and I was enthusiastic at first, because there were likely 1,000 bricks in that pile. But the labor turned out to be incredibly tedious and s…l…o…w. I gave up after fewer than twenty. This weaving is a combination of Paper Connection International‘s Spokes on Tangerine and Hark! Handmade Paper‘s flax/linen/abaca paper.

Don’t forget that you can view all of the weavings on my website or pinterest page, and they are available for purchase!

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Reading Between the Lines

#45

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #45, 10″ x 10″, $100

I have to admit that I keep thinking I’ll run out of ideas of how to weave paper, but so far, so good. I also thought that I would do a few series within the 100 days, and perhaps that will come, but at this point I’m still enjoying the variety of papers that I’ve been gifted (and own). Each day is like a treasure hunt: I look through a stack of papers and pick and choose two that match. Then, I sit with them and determine how to weave them. For #45, I had chose this floral print that I picked up at Two Hands Paperie in Boulder several weeks ago. The weaving is inspired by an Ikea placemat that we have on our table, although it didn’t turn out looking a thing like it!

Ikea placemat

#46

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #46, 10″ x 8″, $100

I’m working on a contribution to the Folded Form Exchange that I’m participating in as an attendee at the College Book Art Association‘s annual meeting in January. In exchange for my contribution, I’ll receive 30 folded forms from other artists. How cool is that?? I cut this paper (one of my handmade white cotton papers, double-couched with a pseudo watermark in orange on top) to look like book pages. This was the beginning of my actual design, which I’ll post at a later date, but instead of recycling the paper I decided to turn it into a weaving. Candy Wooding sent me a little package of her paste papers, and I chose the dark blue one to weave in between my book pages. I encourage you to take a peak at Candy’s blog. She has created a couple of month-long challenges for herself and is sharing her results along the way!

#47

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #47, 10″ x 8″, $100

I’m happy to be working through the stash of prints I made at Penland while co-teaching with Alyssa Salomon (click the link to see some of Alyssa’s van dyke prints on abaca covered disks). This is a van dyke print on cotton, and I had fun juxtaposing various shapes onto images. Someone could concoct a pretty good story about a clamp … in the woods … with an egg. The lovely pink paper is a red koume lace paper, which I purchased at Wet Paint in St. Paul, MN.

I wanted to remind you that I have a pinterest board that features places to shop for paper. And I’ve just started a board featuring shadow lanterns that my students I have created over the years. I’m just about ready to launch a kit that comes with everything you need to make your own shadow lantern. Stay tuned!

 

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Strip by Strip

This is your last reminder on the blog to participate in my giveaway for lots of pretty papers! The raffle ends November 12th.

#41

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #41, 11″ x 8″, $100

I made a marbling sampler, because Steve Pittelkow sent me such an amazing array of his marbled papers. Look at the variety of marbling styles he has experimented with and developed, and these are just the tip of the iceberg (meaning, if you saw the entire sheets, you would be in awe). I hope to share more with you as the days progress. I wove the marbled strips into a sheet of Christine Higgin’s handmade clay paper. Did you know that you can add clay to paper? It adds weight to the paper and it fills in the gaps between the fibers, yielding a very smooth surface. Christine generously shared her recipe with us:

Clay Paper Recipe: Beat 1-3/4 lb of second cut cotton linters in 15 gallons of water for 1-1/2 hours at zero in a Reina beater. Add 2 cups of kaolin (available from papermaking suppliers) or local clay that has been mixed into a slurry and strained to remove an rocks, sticks, etc. Add 10 drops of retention aid.

#42

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #42, 10″ x 8″, $100

This is another marbled paper by Tom Leech. Do you see that each marbler has his/her own style of marbling? I saw hearts in Tom’s marbling, so I tried to echo that in the way I cut the paper for the weaving. I wove it with Hiromi Paper‘s brazilian banana paper in red.

#43

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #43, 14″ x 8″, $100

#44

I’m so fortunate that there is another artist who makes paper right in my town! Susan Mackin Dolan is also a printmaker, and she let me pick through some old shaped papers that she made years ago in bright colored cotton, which she enhanced with lithography. I wove these stockings (I can’t stop thinking of The Night Before Christmas story) into a sheet of Thai Unryu with sprinkled newspaper bits from Black Ink/Graphic Products Corp.

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #44, 9″ x 11.5″, $100

I decided for the first time in this 100 days to make a weaving using the strip method that I learned in elementary school. I cut one sheet into strips vertically and the other horizontally. Up until now either my warp or my weft has been left solid, at least to some degree. And let me tell you that having one sheet of paper in tact makes it much easier to do a weaving. And I like the results much better too. I find today’s weaving, which includes two views of the moon’s surface (one in color and one in black and white) rather blasé. Maybe it would look better if viewed from outer space!

prototype for snowflake shadow lantern, by Helen Hiebert

This is a prototype for a kit that I’m developing and will launch soon. It is a shadow lantern, one of the projects featured in my book Paper Illuminated. The image looks fuzzy because those are shadows that are cast from a cut-out sheet of paper onto a solid sheet, with a 1/4″ balsa wood frame in between. I’d be curious to hear what you think!

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