Free Video Tutorial: Wavy Circular Paper Weaving
April 15, 2018
Thanks to everyone who entered the March Twelve Months of Paper Giveaway for a chance to win a set of Madeleine Durham’s Paste Papers! And the winner is … Sheila Wood. Congratulations!
Paper of the Week: Map Paper + Mingei
This is a new monthly feature on the blog: a video tutorial featuring a paper + a book + a project. This month’s video shows you how to make a Wavy Circular Paper Weaving. I love using maps in paper projects, and I stumbled across a great book filled with printed maps that you tear out and unfold. It’s a really clever design for a book of papers (you’ll see the book in the video), but that’s another topic.
I mention a few resources in the tutorial:
The Book: Maps: Gift and Creative Paper Book by Pepin van Roojen (there are other books of paper in this series that you might like)
The Orange Mingei Backed Japanese Paper is from Washi Arts
The glue applicator is from The Lamp Shop
Click here if you’d like more information about the Paper Weaving online class
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In the Studio:
I guess I’ve got circles on my mind! Here’s a drawing I’m working on for a new watermarked handmade paper. I’m preparing this drawing to be cut in vinyl. The circles will be cut out; I will adhere the resulting web of vinyl to my papermaking mould; and when I pull the sheets, a watermark will appear. Stay tuned!
Papery Tidbits
I really enjoyed this Episode 30 of the Business of Craft Podcast which featured Help Heal Veterans , an organization that provides free therapeutic craft kits for veterans.
There’s one spot left in the September 11-13 session of the Red Cliff Paper Retreat. Could it be yours?
Do you live in SoCal (or like to travel there) and enjoy working with paper? I’m teaching at Idyllwild Arts during the week of July 4th. Find out more about The Potential of Paper and Paper Sculpture.
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On the topic of paper weaving, check out these woven photographs by Korean artist Seung Hoon Park.
As a consumer, I appreciate crowdfunding campaigns. Not only do you get to support a project, but you also get perks. Cave Paper is an organization that I’m particularly fond of (they make some of the toughest, most beautiful papers on the planet – I’m serious)! They’re at a crossroads at the moment. Please watch the video at this link and consider joining their campaign. The perks include a set of their gorgeous papers and all sorts of other things ranging from $5 to $1500.
This is such a lovely story about a gesture a child in Utah made that gave an adult an idea, and together they’re on a mission to create 3600 origami flowers for the survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting.
© Isaac Hale for The Daily Herald
I love this headline: Stealing Design Secrets from Unexpected Master of Origami. That master would be the earwig. Using computer simulations, a team of scientists at ETH Zurich and Purdue University recently studied the complex folding behavior of this master. Their results, published in a recent issue of Science, expand the possibilities of synthetic origami systems like solar sails, bendable electronic displays, and even some biomedical devices.
The 3-D-printed imitation of the earwig wing can be folded as compact as its natural counterpart. However, the automatic folding function so far only works in the simplified prototypes. Image Credit: ETH Zurich.
Check this out: a paper airplane folding machine. The machine is made of various elements, including Legos, and the paper airplane takes flight at the end!
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