Weaving in the Midwest

#27

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #27, 18″ x 9″, $100

I’ll make this brief, because I’m traveling and quite busy, but I have managed to make a weaving each day here in Missouri. I flew to St. Louis for the annual meeting of the Friends of Dard Hunter. Click the link to find out more about this renaissance man, particularly in the realm of paper.

The lacy paper is made by one of my favorite hand papermakers, Andrea Peterson of Hook Pottery Paper. She makes these exquisite decorative sheets by using an airbrush to spray finely beaten pulp (in this case white) onto a base sheet through a piece of lace that she lays on top of the sheet. I brought along this embossed red floral paper that I picked out of the sale box at Two Hands Paperie.

#28

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© Helen Hiebert, 100 x 100 Paper Weavings, #28, 10″ x 8″, $100

I found these papers at Two Hands Paperie as well. The green paper is a printed wrapping paper (but I’m curious to know what else would you might use it for?). I love the cursive letters and was sad to hear that cursive isn’t being taught in school anymore. If this is truly the case, how will our future researchers be able to read old documents? I wove this with a printed Indian handmade paper.

#29

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