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