Tag Archives: papermaking

Friday Night Flicks: Corsoyard

Posted on April 5, 2019 by

Tonight’s flick is a mesmerising video of a young man making a sheet of paper. That’s it —a single sheet of washi.     Perhaps you will take a close look at some paper this weekend.

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Friday Night Flicks: Chinese Rice Paper Maker Sticks to Traditional Hand making Methods

Posted on October 19, 2018 by

Tonight’s video is about the making of rice paper in Jingxian County of east China’s Anhui Province, in particular the making of a single sheet 3.6 meters wide and 11 meters long.   You can read more text about the … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: A Paper Record Player

Posted on September 14, 2018 by

Tonight’s flick was chosen mostly as a demonstration of a concept. I have long held that you can make anything out of paper, and here’s a working (well, manually operated) record player to help prove the point.     You … Continue reading →

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I Blame The Heat (and the cat)

Posted on August 12, 2018 by

This week I finished the book for the joint project with Kate Hodgson, but the process did not go nearly as smoothly as I had hoped. I re-sized the test version of the parts for a 5-point star and printed … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: Der Papiermacher

Posted on June 29, 2018 by

A friend sent me a link to this video a little while ago, and I enjoyed it enough to want to share it further. Directed by Daniel Egenolf for Kings and Kongs, Der Papiermacher is a portrait of Gangolf Ulbricht, … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: Making hanji: Korean papermaking by Shin Hyun Se

Posted on June 22, 2018 by

Tonight’s video is a little longer than usual, but it’s worth it to watch all the steps involved in producing hanji.     If you want to try a little papermaking this weekend, there’s a tutorial on making your own … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: Sekishu-Banshi

Posted on June 16, 2017 by

One of the joys of the Interweb is the ‘accidental find’. Today’s video is about traditional paper making in the region of Iwame in the Shimane Prefecture of Japan. The paper making technique used in the video is reputed to … Continue reading →

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This and That

Posted on August 7, 2016 by

It has been another one of those weeks where I flitted from project to project without seeming to make much progress. I am working on a pop-up book with Monique Martin but there isn’t much to look at yet. David and I made another … Continue reading →

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Recomp 2

Posted on September 6, 2015 by

I had not planned to write another post about the bald-faced hornets and our joint project quite so soon, but life has a way of intervening in the plans of humans. And the plans of hornets, in this case. While I was … Continue reading →

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Recomp

Posted on August 16, 2015 by

Back in late 2013, I wrote a piece for Book Arts/Arts du livre Canada, the magazine of the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild. The editor wanted a description/announcement rather than a critical review for Decomp, Stephen Collis/Jordan Scott, Coach House Books, Toronto, … Continue reading →

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