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

by Helen Hiebert

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580170870
• ISBN13: 9781580170871
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.6" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

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I am really apreciative about my purchase. Happy new year to you and good luck. Thank you.

Must-have for making paper from plants

This is a must have book for anyone who wants to make paper from plants. It is packed with information not found elsewhere. The full-color illustrations & step-by-step instructions guide you seamlessly through the papermaking process.The author starts out by explaining the many kinds of plant fibers and how to find, harvest and store them. All equipment needed is detailed next. Processing the fiber including cooking, beating, and retting is then covered. Using dyes & additives as well as making your own is also discussed. Both Japanese and western sheet formation are then covered. Instructions are included for making your own paper press, mold & deckle and high-tech drying box. Many recipes including mulberry, rose-of-sharon, & seaweed follow. Several projects including vegetable papyrus & shaped envelopes are next. A chart with many fibers listed by type can be used to make additional paper types.

I love this book

This book guids you through the magical world of plants and paper...Using it is an excellent way to learn papermaking,loving it and understanding plants and their formation. It is an excellent guide for those who love paper and its art.CONGRADULATIONS !

I LOVE this book!

I always wanted to make paper. However, the idea of making paper out of paper, seems idiotic to me. Then I found this book. It's everything I ever wanted. I recommend it for anyone. I would also make a great gift.

If I could only have one papermaking book,this would be it.

As a beginner papermaker interested in working with plant fibers, this book fulfills most of my papermaking needs: clear, concise instructions and illustrations; some good basic recipes; and great ideas to get the creative juices flowing. All this in a beautiful book that is also an interesting read.