Origami

Paper + Thread – Helen Hiebert Studio

September 1, 2024
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The Sunday Paper #521

September 1, 2024

I actually benefit from the Purple Cliff Paper Retreat every year, and this yr was no completely different. 12 individuals traveled from across the nation to kind a inventive group within the tiny hamlet of Purple Cliff for the week (view extra pictures on IG). We explored paper and thread by: stitching on paper, embedding threads and strings in paper, and making our personal paper string. We utilized konnyaku to Japanese papers to make momigami, and we pulled our personal flax, flabaca and abaca handmade sheets. This made for a pleasant mixture of moist and dry work. Particulars about subsequent yr’s retreat will likely be printed within the fall; within the meantime, you’ll be able to learn extra and signal as much as be notified when registration opens.

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Ooh la la! I can’t wait to get my palms on a duplicate of the brand new ebook Radical Paper: Artwork & Invention with Coloured Pulp by Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour. Though handmade papers have been employed by artists for hundreds of years, the usage of handmade paper and coloured paper pulp as an integral aspect in creating artwork – versus serving solely because the floor on which artwork is created – has seen outstanding growth over the past 70 years.

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Try these beautiful books created by Clémentine, aka Turbochat! They arrive in such distinctive shapes and are stuffed with deckled handmade papers that had been created by the artist. Click on by to see her distinctive heart-shaped books and to learn her story: For years, she battled with melancholy and nervousness, making it almost unattainable to suit right into a “regular” job. She tried and failed at so many roles, feeling misplaced and misplaced, till she lastly determined to show her lifelong love for artwork and craft into her essential supply of earnings.

Coptic Binding With Classic Indian Sari Cloth And Paper Dyed With Pure Mineral Pigments (French Ochres)

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I can’t consider, that after greater than a yr of planning, I’m lastly heading to Tasmania on September tenth! The spotlight of the journey would be the Paper On Pores and skin  trend present on September twenty first. I will likely be judging the handmade paper entries and educating two workshops after the runway present.

Leonie Oakes (AUS) Listening to the evening, 2022 Winner Award in Honour of Pam and Neil Thorne sponsored by Janet De Boer

I’ll even be at a ebook signing for The Artwork of Papercraft on 9/21, and can lecture about my work on the night of 9/23. Particulars are coming very quickly.

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Hearken to this beautiful NPR story about Sam Winston and Oliver Jeffer’s new ebook The Dictionary Story.

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