FREE Paper Slinky Tutorial
July 15, 2018
Thanks to everyone who entered the June Twelve Months of Paper Giveaway featuring Arnold Grummerâs Papermill Pro Kit! And the winner is ⦠Jane Wherry. Congratulations!
Paper of the Week: How to Make a Paper Slinky!
I love all sorts of paper techniques, from surface design to cutting, folding and the myriad forms of manipulation. Here’s an old technique that I’m calling a Paper Slinky. I think I first saw it in Pauline Johnson’s book Creating with Paper. Two variations are also included in my own book Playing with Paper. How have you used this technique?
I mention a few resources in the video tutorial:
Hereâs the paper slinky template
You might be interested in more projects in my book Playing with Paper.
Japanese linen paper from Washi Arts
Double sided Thai unryu from GPC Papers
If you create a paper slinky, send me a photo! And feel free to share this blog post with your paper-loving friends (there’s a share button at the bottom of the page).
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In the Studio:Â
After being gone for two weeks, I’ve been catching up and packing kits to ship out to the participants in my Paper Illuminated online class. So instead of a studio photo, I’ll share this image with you from the current issue of Dwell magazine, which I picked up at the San Diego airport. What are the chances that I would pick up a magazine with paper shoes in it?!
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For those of you in the Pacific Northwest, here are two workshops that are taking place next weekend that are not to miss!
Paper Voodoo: Transforming Washi with Konnyaku
Washi Workshop: Modern Paste Paper with Madeline Durham
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Check out these miniature folded paper pieces by Oorjitha Dogiparthi, a self-taught origami, paper artist from Chennai. Most of her paper subjects relate to her area of study: food chemistry and food processing,
This is a cute video of two young boys unpacking The Necronomicon Pop Up book, which contains five pop up spreads each of which illustrates key moments in seminal H.P. Lovecraft stories. Grab a copy of the book here.
So… this isn’t exactly paper, but the article is about how we might be misinterpreting the meaning of the letters we send to friends and loved ones â don’t you think of paper as integral to a letter? Think again!
Raymond Boudet, stationed in Hawaii with the Navy during World War II, sent this coconut to his wife in Springfield, Mass. He wired a postage tag to it and carved a love letter into the hard exterior of the fruit. Boudetâs wife Marie donated the coconut to the National Postal Museum in 1995. (Image courtesy National Postal Museum)
How did the paper bag come to be? Here’s an interesting story from Smithsonian Magazine about Margaret Knight, who came up with a replacement for folding paper bags by handâthe inefficient and error-prone task she was charged with. Not only did Knight file for a patent, she rigorously defended her ownership of the bag machine idea in a legal battle with a fraud who had copied her, and this all took place in the late 1800’s!
Patent model for paper bag machine (National Museum of American History)
Speaking of automated paper folding, this is a fascinating article about scientists who are using gelatin to product laser-written circuits on paper for all sorts of applications.
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