A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week 215

Papermaking is essentially a craft. It can be a highly artistic craft, of course, when an artist is making paper. It is a means to an end and can be exquisitely beautiful. It can play an essential role in the total expression of the graphic arts— though, as it is taken so much for granted, most often it does not. Truly, fine papermaking is many things or it is only high-class Kleenex, depending on one’s interest and sensitivity to an absolute and critical element.

– from “Notes Regarding the Activity of Papermaking” in the chapter “A Thousand Year Old Approach” in Papermaking by Jules Heller