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Papermaking with Plants: Creative Recipes and Projects Using Herbs, Flowers, Grasses, and Leaves - Tapa dura

Hiebert, Helen

 
9781580170871: Papermaking with Plants: Creative Recipes and Projects Using Herbs, Flowers, Grasses, and Leaves

Sinopsis

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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Create Unique Handmade Paper from Wild or Cultivated Plants!

Create your own hand-crafted paper from natural materials you gather with this complete how-to guide. From hosta to milkweed and corn husks to pineapple leaves, almost any plant can be transformed into an elegant sheet of paper. With the step-by-step instructions in Papermaking with Plants, you'll learn 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 paper with natural dyes and decorative materials like flower petals and pine needles

* Craft one-of-a-kind projects such as vegetable papyrus, multi-paper collages, envelopes, lampshades, and specialty books.

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