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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.
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Papermaking with Plants, Helen Hiebert
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- Released
- 1998
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- Title
- Papermaking with Plants
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Helen Hiebert
- Publisher
- Storey Publishing
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 1580170870
- ISBN13
- 9781580170871
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Art
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- 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.