Making Handmade Paper

The process of handmade papermaking is a bit like cooking, in that, there are ingredients, and you put them together to create something that is more than the sum of its parts. It creates an artistic means of expression in my work.

In order to make sheets of paper, the fiber is soaked, cooked, cleaned, pounded then formed into sheets and finally dried. All these steps in aggregate takes over 24 hrs. I call this, A TRUE LABOR OF LOVE process.

Fibers: Kozo, Gampi and Iris.

Kozo Moments

This structure is a gem. It is called the storage book and is one of many ingenious and innovative book structures by Hedi Kyle. I used the storage book to preserve paper samples that I made with Kozo fiber. Each sample to me is a reminder of a moment in time-the time spent in the studio learning, discovering and experimenting with the fiber.