Papermaking with Plants: Creative Recipes and Projects Using Herbs, Flowers, Grasses, and Leaves

by Helen Hiebert

What can you do with banana and milkweed, cornhusks and pineapple, wheat straw and mulberry?  Make a deranged fruit salad?  A chapeau for Carmen Miranda?  No!  You can make your own unique hand crafted paper from natural materials with this complete how-to guide.                 With the step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs in Papermaking with Plants , you’ll learn how to: ·         Collect and harvest plant fibers from stalks, barks, leaves, and grasses ·         Process, press, dry and finish your paper using both Eastern and Western methods. ·         Embellish your paper with natural dyes and decorative materials like flower petals and pine needles ·         Craft one-of-a-kind projects such as vegetable papyrus, multipaper collages, and shaped papers including envelopes, lampshades, specialty books, and covers.  

Genres: Nonfiction, Art

112 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1997

About the author

Helen Hiebert constructs installations, sculptures, films and artist books using handmade paper as her primary medium. She teaches, lectures and exhibits her work internationally, and she is the author of the books Playing With Paper, Papermaking with Plants, The Papermaker's Companion, and Paper Illuminated. She is the vice president of the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists and a regular contributor to Hand Papermaking Newsletter. She lives and works in Colorado. Visit her website: http://www.helenhiebertstudio.com

Reviews

[Lizzytish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent lol detailed and technical book on Papermaking. However, as it’s something I was thinking of just dabbling in, it won’t work for me.