#papermaking

[sabertoothwalrus]

I learned how to make paper today

[mcromwell]

"Ochre Ghost"

9.5"x15"

Handmade paper collage, acrylic, charcoal, conté crayon on reclaimed wood

Make paper, glue paper, rub paper away, it's all good! Get a print of this here.

[samimarkart]

cleaning today and going through some old pieces I’ve now listed on my shop! prints from my semester of papermaking where I was pressing wet paper pulp into block carvings to make embossed prints :)

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

This week we present four paper samples from Cave Paper, a distinctive American handmade production paper company. Cave Paper was founded in Minneapolis in 1994 by Amanda Degener and Bridget O'Malley. In 2020, Cave Paper was passed on to Zoë Goehring who moved the studio to Tuscon. The samples shown here are:

Galaxy: a rich black dusted with mica flakes. The black is an optical black made from dense layering of indigo and walnut dyes. The dyed paper is then coated with hot melted gelatin and sprinkled with mica, a technique introduced to them by papermaker Richard Flavin (1943-2020).

Green Crackle: a natural flax sheet is size and dried and then crumpled and dunked into pigmented water. The paper is then quickly opened, laid flat, and rinsed.

Cloudy Sky: a cotton rag paper with a cloudy pulp couched onto a blue base sheet.

Alphabet: made from recycled sheets with letterpress printing. The Hollander beater breaks down the paper while leaving the letters intact in the slurry. When forming the paper, the letters float to the surface and are caught as the paper mould is lifted full of pulp.

These samples were inserted in the article "Cave Paper [continued]" by Amanda Degener and Bridget O'Malley in Matrix 27, Winter 2007, pp. 13-17, printed at John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Risbury, Herefordshire, England in an edition of 750 copies, another donation from our late friend Jerry Buff (1931-2025).

View more Decorative Sunday posts.

[zinesbylennon]

Handmade some paper and made a micro-zine to print out on it!

Yes it's based on that meme.

Here's the earlier test version which was just a print of an earlier zine of mine:

[intensebehavior]

prints on handmade paper

[takahikohayashi]

D-21.May.2025 Takahiko HAYASHI 37x37cm mixed media painting/ mineral pigment, dyed mud pigment, animal glue on self-made washi, stitching, collage,

[fawniart]

printed on my very own paper that i handmade with garden herbs!! 🍐✨

[multcolib]

Tapa, or bark-cloth, is made in several Pacific Islands, including Tahiti, Samoa and Hawaii. The bark - usually from mulberry trees - is soaked, beaten and molded in a process very similar to paper making. It is used to make clothing, blankets, and more. Here in the Wilson Room we are lucky to hold Ka Hana Kapa: the Making of Bark-cloth in Hawaii and this not-yet-catalogued A Collection of Tapas from the 1920s assembled by paper maker Marilyn Wold (a gift from artist Margaret Prentice), which includes samples of tapa.

[endcant]

paper

[mcromwell]

I make... Paper feeshy...

[tunnel-vvision]

secret belgian binding, handmade paper of denim and cotton, approx. 3x3.5in

gift for my housemate who loves green :)

[pumpkinpaix]

hand beating the mulberry fiber and picking out the largest impurities :’)

[zinesbylennon]

So I have been busy. I handmade a journal. The cover came from an old Catholic book of sermons, the pages are all handmade and the entire thing is handbound.

Oh and the coolest part?

It glows under UV light.

[intensebehavior]

i make my own paper half to print on and half because i like dunking my hands in the sludge

[monikahmakes]

Recently: making paper, and making things on paper.