#$$am (papermaker)

[vaginadentatas69]

so badly want to go on this tour of japan holy fuck this wild be insanely cool https://www.denysjames.com/excursions/japan/index.html

[scribefindegil]

One of the ways in which learning a bunch of crafts is dangerous is that you learn just how many things can be used as raw materials and it does not help with the hoarding instincts. Every time I throw away a pile of disintegrating clothes part of me goes "Nooooo you could make paper out of that!!!" even though I have no papermaking equipment, haven't made any in like a decade, and am now physically incapable of doing so. Also I'm sure most modern clothes would make really shitty paper. But like. Technically, you could make paper out of them, and this fact haunts me.

[kpoplrcfiles]

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[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

GERI WADDINGTON

These wood engravings are by English artist Geri Waddington (b. 1953), and are inserted into her brief essay about her visit to "French Papermakers & Other House Guests," published in��Matrix 29 (Summer 2010), pp. 14-16, printed at John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Risbury, Herefordshire, England in an edition of 725 copies.

Waddington describes her visits to Moulin du Verger, in Puymoyen, France, operated by proprietor and master papermaker Jacques Brejoux, Moulin de la Rouzique (now a museum) in Périgord, and the Moulin de Larroque in Couze-Saint-Front. Much of her narrative, however, dwells on the house she stayed at which had many other non-human residents, including doves and bats that live in "pigeoneer" holes and lizards that live in the walls, as reflected in these engravings. Other denizens included frogs, toads, hornets, masonry bees, and a barn owl. Waddington writes:

I am not sure if my blocks or my printing can do justice to these beautiful papers, but perhaps it is enough just to own some of these little pieces of history, mementos of a continuum of craftsmanship stretching back nearly five hundred years.

Geri Waddington trained in painting at the Slade School of Fine Art and started engraving in 1995. In 2001 she was elected a member of the venerable Society of Wood Engravers, and served as its chair in 2014.

View more posts with work by Geri Waddington.

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[pumpkinpaix]

I am processing nettle to do various fiber craft experiments with and you may notice the terrible stock pot situation which resulted in me setting a towel on fire briefly but hey. I have successfully made nettle cordage. The difference in color is dependent on how much I scraped and cleaned the fiber before use!

Unfortunately the journey is far from over and I expect I shall be in nettle hell for weeks to come

Other nettle projects include spinning, papermaking, dyeing (root and leaf) and eating. I have already eaten it but I think the season is wrong. Not much taste only texture. anyways! Good times and also suffering

[mybeingthere]

Raven Girl, 2013 by Audrey Niffenegger (American, b. 1963, South Haven, MI, USA), who tells us about this story:

"Once there was a Postman who fell in love with a Raven. So begins the tale of a postman who encounters a fledgling raven on his route and decides to bring her home. The unlikely couple falls in love and conceives a child—a raven girl trapped in a human body. The raven girl feels imprisoned by her arms and legs and covets wings and the ability to fly. Betwixt and between, she reluctantly grows into a young woman, until one day she meets an unorthodox doctor who is willing to change her.

Raven Girl was created as part of a collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet in London. I wrote the story and made aquatints to illustrate it. Wayne then used the story and images as the basis for his ballet, which premiered at the Royal Opera House in June, 2013."

Audrey talks about herself:

"I was born in South Haven, Michigan, grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and now live in Chicago with frequent visits to London. I am married to the artist and writer Eddie Campbell.

I began making prints in 1978 under the tutelage of William Wimmer. I trained as a visual artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received my MFA from Northwestern University’s Department of Art Theory and Practice in 1991. I have exhibited my artist’s books, prints, paintings, drawings and comics at Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1987. In 2013, a major mid-career retrospective of my prints, paintings and artist’s bookworks opened at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.

My first books were printed and bound by hand in editions of ten. Two of these have since been commercially published by Harry N. Abrams: The Adventuress and The Three Incestuous Sisters.

In 1997 I had an idea for a book about a time traveler and his wife. I originally imagined making it as a graphic novel, but eventually realized that it is very difficult to represent sudden time shifts with still images. I began to work on the project as a novel, and published The Time Traveler’s Wife in 2003 with the independent publisher MacAdam/Cage. It was an international best seller, and has been made into a movie.

In 1994 a group of book artists, papermakers and designers came together to found a new book arts center, the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. I was part of this group and taught book arts for many years as an Associate Professor in Columbia College’s MFA program in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts. Until May, 2015 I was a Professor on the faculty of the Columbia College Creative Writing Department. I’ve also taught for the Newberry Library, Penland School of Craft, Haystack, the University of Illinois at Chicago and other institutions of higher learning. I am currently on hiatus from teaching in order to get my own work done."

[pathologicalreid]

for the other anon - from a huge history nerd

the title of "most powerful empire" totally depends on the context (what aspects are we judging their power on). there's military dominance, territorial extent, economic influence, and cultural legacy. the Roman Empire was a cultural and administrative giant, it absolutely dominated the Mediterranean, it influenced law and governance for centuries (though it eventually fell due to corruption and overextension). the Mongol Empire was actually the largest contiguous empire, it excelled in military strategy and facilitated trade across Eurasia but lacked a unified administrative system. The British Empire, at its peak, controlled a quarter of the world's land and population.

If you really look into influence and power, China actually held a lot of that. Gunpowder, the compass, papermaking/printing, silk, porcelain, advanced farming tools... were ALL invented around the Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty.

While the British Empire controlled a lot of the land mass, they were severely behind in technological advancements, which is why we see events like the Opium Wars.

Thank you for your time

i don’t really have anything to add to this i’m just sharing it for the masses because i am also a history nerd

[alsunday]

canon divergence information ... inoue orihime.

the biggest thing that i've removed from my canon is the endgame ship. while i do acknowledge orihime's feelings regarding ichigo early on in the series, as personally for me it's one of my favorite portrayals of unrequited love, i am content with it being just that and am not interested in writing it as a ship. moving forward writing with any ichigo, i will write her as having moved past those feelings and viewing ichigo as one of her best friends. please do not ask me to make exceptions on this.

that being said, kazui doesn't exist in my canon.

after the events of tybw, orihime attends art school and majors in papermaking and bookbinding. she also later takes courses that help her to receive a degree in order to become a high school counselor, helping students deal with life changes, grief, etc.

she later runs a small business; selling little plushies she's sown herself online and in small shops in karakura, primarily featured in urahara's shoten.

[siegecraft]

time for a new intro post—hi, I’m C. J. Linton! You can call me CJ or Case.

I’m a game designer, editor, voluntary forever GM, and the business director of Sly Robot Games with Dominique Dickey (@domsdickey). Our games include:

Tomorrow on Revelation III, about surviving and resisting capitalism on a heavily stratified space station.

Plant Girl Game, about a family of plant children working together with their community to prevent ecological disaster.

The Prince of Nothing Good (upcoming!), a heist about a notorious thief pulling together his crew for one last job in a fantastical and hostile city.

I’ve also written Bring Down the House, which is about ghosts trying to dispose of their home’s latest occupants, and Those of Us Who Know Better, about trans superheroes whose powers come at a price.

I do a lot of things outside of tabletop roleplaying games that I also talk about on here, including:

Dramaturgy and new play development. (My dramaturgy pretty significantly informs my game development and editing practices.) I’m currently working with two playwrights, one working on a sort of adaptation of "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett that is also an ecological problem play and one working on a very Jewish journalism-y Superman play.

Bookbinding and other handcraft sundries. I am a small part of the sustainable bookbinding, needlework, and papermaking operation run by my partner, Amethyst Alchemist. I make a lot of book cloth, bind a lot of books, and occasionally cross stitch pieces for the front covers.

Fiction, board games, video games, and other writing/media, especially science fiction and cyberpunk, engine building games, critique, and my own work. I am a proponent of a generous but more honest ecosystem of media criticism, and I speak transparently about works that didn’t work for me.  

and I'd love to be doing more editing and dramaturgy, so feel free to get in touch about that.

In most other places, I am @NearFutures: itch.io, Bluesky, Cohost, Twitter. and this is my website, which I am trying to be better about keeping up to date.

[saviourtr0pe]

canon divergence information ... inoue orihime.

the biggest thing that i've removed from my canon is the endgame ship. while i do acknowledge orihime's feelings regarding ichigo early on in the series, as personally for me it's one of my favorite portrayals of unrequited love, i am content with it being just that and am not interested in writing it as a ship. moving forward writing with any ichigo, i will write her as having moved past those feelings and viewing ichigo as one of her best friends. please do not ask me to make exceptions on this.

that being said, kazui doesn't exist in my canon.

after the events of tybw, orihime attends art school and majors in papermaking and bookbinding. she also later takes courses that help her to receive a degree in order to become a high school counselor, helping students deal with life changes, grief, etc.

she later runs a small business; selling little plushies she's sown herself online and in small shops in karakura, primarily featured in urahara's shoten.

[chaiwrote]

* portrayal notes + canon divergence for inoue orihime ;;

the biggest thing that i've removed from my canon is the endgame ship. while i do acknowledge orihime's feelings regarding ichigo early on in the series, as personally for me it's one of my favorite portrayals of unrequited love, i am content with it being just that and am not interested in writing it as a ship. moving forward writing with any ichigo, i will write her as having moved past those feelings and viewing ichigo as one of her best friends. please do not ask me to make exceptions on this.

that being said, kazui doesn't exist in my canon.

after the events of tybw, orihime attends art school and majors in papermaking and bookbinding. she also later takes courses that help her to receive a degree in order to become a high school counselor, helping students deal with life changes, grief, etc.

she later runs a small business; selling little plushies she's sown herself online and in small shops in karakura, primarily featured in urahara's shoten.

[scribefindegil]

Is paper made at home with the blender method really always low quality? I've been wanting to learn to do it for ages and planned on doing so once I had enough space, it seemed like a craft with a relatively low bar of entry that I could do despite my disabilities and a good way to recycle all the junk mail I get, but if it's doomed to be low quality and fall apart it kinda sounds pointless to learn? I mean I never intended to do anything in particular with the paper, the process itself is what made my brain get all "oh I wanna do that", but if I won't even be able to use it to draw or write or give it to someone who can use it for that...idk. Are there ways to modify the shredded paper to pulp method so the paper has a better chance of being useful? Or is that also essentially impossible without a huge expensive machine?

(Also no worries if you don't have the spoons to answer, I always planned on doing my own research before starting and am still going to do that at some point regardless if I decide to actually try or not.)

Quick answer (might investigate more later if the curse lets me): it's going to depend partially on what you use as your base paper and what you're planning to use it for. My background is bookbinding and conservation, where papers need to meet pretty specific quality requirements bc they're used in ways that put them under strain (folding, glueing, being folded and frequently handled, often being the failure point of a binding or repair). Paper that's being used to draw with dry media or as an art object won't be subjected to that kind of stress, so it doesn't matter as much if it's fragile. Things to consider:

Thin sheets of paper will exacerbate the problems; a really thin sheet of blender-made paper might just not be usable, but if you pull chunkier sheets they'll hold up better

Using better-quality paper to begin with will get you a better-quality product. If you have any offcuts of watercolor or printmaking paper or good sketchbook paper, it will work best. Since you mentioned using up junk mail, know that it's probably going to make especially weak paper, though if you use a mixture of papers you can offset that somewhat. If you care about longevity, stay away from newsprint because it's acidic.

Even weak paper usually won't fall apart from basic handling, but it could be very brittle (cracking if you fold it) and not have much abrasion resistance (ripping up if you try to erase pencil lines), so bear that in mind when you're deciding what to do with it. It's also likely to be very fragile when wet.

You can draw or write with dry media on almost any paper, but if you want to use ink you might want to look into sizing. Even good-quality handmade paper is very absorbent and usually needs to be treated with a sizing agent to keep the ink from feathering out. The most common is gelatin, but I'm sure there are others.

The surface might also be very rough, making a pen/brush skip around. Paper can be burnished, which is done industrially with hot rollers and you can do yourself with a bone folder. It's pretty labor-intensive though

You can take advantage of the thickness and texture by making art paper—add tea or dried plants or glitter or little scraps of unpulped paper to your vat! Then the use of the paper is Being Cool so you don't have to worry about what else you can do with it

Also look into pulp painting! It's a technique where you actually *want* overprocessed fiber because you can use it to paint or stencil designs on other pieces of paper that have been couched and pressed but not dried yet. It was one of my favorite techniques to play around with when I was doing papermaking!

TLDR: You can't make really high-quality paper with the blender method, but you can definitely make usable stuff as long as you keep the strengths and limitations of the technique in mind!

[hugwort]

Fractured Self (2023). Handmade Kozo paper with pulp painting and collage elements

Finally got around to documenting some work I made while I was working as a Studio Assistant at Penland over the summer. The workshop, taught by artist Kelly Taylor Mitchell, was called Paper, Collage and the Archive. We were tasked with bringing our personal archives into our practice, exploring ways to include them into the process of hand papermaking.

When using personal journal/diary entries, including letters to family never meant to be read, how do I share that information? Am I able to be vulnerable in a way that still protects me, honoring the private nature of that work? The act of cutting up and then encasing those artifacts into handmade paper felt like an effective way to preserve and protect them.

[arron-foster-studio]

…..

Mogadore Road_Sutures

16”x16”

Cyanotype, Silkscreen and hand made botanical dyes on handmade paper mounted on Canson infinity paper.

2024

Made for the Evidenced By Nature exchange portfolio organized by @kirstindunlap and @mud.n.mushrooms for the @sgcinternational

Verified by Proof Conference.

This print centers my exploration and documentation of the rehabilitation of the Mogadore Road Brownfield site in Kent Ohio.

More about this particular Brownfield site can be found here in a (dated) article from 2011 -https://patch.com/ohio/kent/a-dirty-history-of-manufacturing-at-old-lamson-and-se0b78142d7c

I am thankful to the organizers who’ve given me a little extra time and space to wrap this edition up. (It’s in route soon- I promise ).

Everything about this project has had a certain gravitas and tested the limits of my humble home studio.

Each aspect of the print, from the making of the paper and dyes to the imagery itself is rooted in the local landscape.

The fiber for the paper was a combination of recycled western rag, abaca and cattails. The dyes were made from locally sourced botanicals and the water itself was taken from my studios dehumidifier.

Processing cyanotypes on delicate handmade paper required new techniques and strategies and tinting transparent base with sensitive natural dyes was finicky. It was a joy to experiment with process and approach.

In all - I truly enjoyed this exchange and am excited to see all of the other work.

Thank you @kirstindunlap and @mud.n.mushrooms for including me!

#verifiedbyproof #sgcinternational #papermaking #todaysalternative #cyanotype #alternativeprocess #contemporaryart #contemporaryprintmaking #artistoninstagram #peopleofprint #ohioartist #ohio #kentohio

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

The designers highlighted in Some Examples of the Work of American Designers, edited and arranged by J. M. Bowles, designed the initial letters for their own entries. Shown here are:

A - Frank H. Weikel

B - W. P. Schoonmaker

C - Adrian J. Iorio

L - Louise Ames Norman

M - Arthur Finley

P - Charles R. Capon

T - Charles B. Falls

Some Examples of the Work of American Designers was printed in Philadelphia by Edward Stern & Co. for Dill & Collins Co. Papermakers in 1918 on thirty styles of paper manufactured by Dill & Collins Co in Philadelphia.

View our other Typography Tuesday posts

[ffxiv-swarm]

Would you tell us more about Pavo's weird and traditional tribe? He's probably the OC of yours that I want to examine under a microscope the most (the runner-up being Q'sevet, of course) :3c

OH NO YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD

Bullet points in no particular order bc i've Never written this shit down before:

i freely admit this was based HEAVILY on classic maya life/traditions/art but like. bunnies

well, classic maya shit + Fae, But The Kind That Eat You

ritualistic cannibalism my beloved (if you're caught in their woods there is like an 80% chance you will be killed and/or sacrificed to their gods and/or eaten)

but aside from that the Miret-Moor village of Whispering Stars is...surprisingly chill? they have beehives and cassava and probably a variety of chocobo

clothing tends to be very sparse--think loincloths & wraps & leathers--because golmore is Fucking Hot

women and children stay in and around the village, men in a loose perimeter around it

TECHNICALLY they're only allowed back into the village once a year but in practice...wow, it sure is something how those sentries just Happened to be looking the other way

strong tradition of literacy and papermaking but their written tongue is indecipherable to eorzeans

(they actually descend from a Turalian viera tribe who went east during ehhHHH one of the previous astral eras & thought golmore would be a good place to settle)

also a very strong tradition of astrology. like. VERY strong. their current matriarch, aud (pavo's grandma!) is said to hear the voices of the stars themselves. stars tell them when to plant, when to harvest, how their kids will grow up, etc

which means that when pavo was born with the constellation of the Great Tree on his shoulder, they all went "ooooh"

alas, Kalju Happened

boys are supposed to stay away from the village for 7 years after they accept a mentor, learning the ways of men (tracking, various rites & rituals, etc). after those 7 years, they return, there's a big feast, they get facial tattoos, the works. the whispering stars dudes pretty much float around in each other's orbit the rest of the time, but long-lasting relationships aren't uncommon.

they follow the viera male surname system when introducing themselves & it's considered lucky if you're trained by someone who shares your elemental affinity

(ladies are always considered to have Earth affinities, but whether they are Rehw-Setlas or Djt-Setlas depends on whether they have borne children or not)

in the wider forest, though, they use their village name

Whispering Stars members also have day names used in the village, following the number/day of their birth in their calendar. these are used mostly for divination but sometimes they get used as actual names if you decide your given name sucks

typical full name: [first name] + [day name] + [elemental affinity] + [village]

ex: Sigri Ten Deer Djt-Marouc Miret-Moor, Kalju Four Jaguar Rehw-Gilda Miret-Moor

i AM capable of going on about classic maya naming systems for a while do NOT test me

ANYway, they're allowed to go anywhere in golmore!...but not beyond it. once they leave the tree cover, they're considered to have forfeited the protection of the Wood and the Green Word, and are thus too unclean to remain. only blood offerings can placate the wood, and depending on the length of the transgression that might be a hell of a lot of blood

this may have something to do with their dances on certain times of the day or night, dances beneath the stars

...Aud, along with every other high matriarch before her, has been known as the Starsinger. Do they sing back?

say, where did ultima come from anyway?

don't worry about it

at least she's not the only one in charge; the five eldest women in the village make major decisions as a group, and among men the eldest Djt-Marouc leads

yes this means pavo would have eventually been in charge, god help them

speaking of pavo, a fun mutation he has (common among the tribe) is what are called "climbing feet;" they're semi-digitigrade, with high arches and long toes, and so he's more comfortable in heels or sandals than closed shoes. in fact he's the MOST comfortable off the ground entirely, so it's a good thing...

...that the tribe builds their houses in trees! no, not just treehouses. actual giant hollowed-out trees, living spaces carved into or grown out of the wood.

think fanow here

except fanow PROBABLY doesn't have a skull rack outside the front gates as a warning

at some point i need to sit down & come up with a pantheon but Not Today