Description
Beautiful Paper, Grown Right in Your Backyard
Almost any common plant–from hosta to milkweed, cornhusks, and pineapple leaves–can be transformed into an elegant sheet of decorative paper. The possibilities for creating your own unique, eco-friendly papers with plant fibers are endless once you master the basic techniques. In Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, expert papermaker Helen Hiebert shows you how to:
- Collect and harvest plant fibers from stalks, bark, leaves, and grasses
- Process the fiber and press, dry, and finish your paper
- Embellish your sheets with natural dyes and decorative materials such as flower petals and pine needles
- Craft unique projects including vegetable papyrus, multi-paper collages, envelopes, lampshades, and specialty books
Discover the excitement and joy of making one-of-a-kind papers directly from nature!
Helen Hiebert is a papermaker, artist, and author of books on papermaking and paper crafts, including The Papermaker’s Companion and Papermaking with Garden Plants and Common Weeds. She teaches papermaking classes and workshops, writes a weekly blog, and is the Paper Talk podcast host. She lives near Vail, Colorado.
Storey Publishing
Pub Date: January 1, 2006
0.34″ H x 9.88″ L x 9.58″ W
112 pages
Paperback
