Papermaking at Home How to Make Handmade Paper 1977 Texas Book
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Vintage 1977
Papermaking Booklet # 4 (small format) ~ Papermaking At Home ~ 37 pages, Aalbert
Heine, Director of the Corpus Christi Museum. Published by The Friends of the
Corpus Christi Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas. The textures and colors of
handmade papers are perfect for scrapbooking, they're fabulous used as gift
tags, wrapping paper, note cards and so much more. A fantastic introduction to
the craft of handmade paper using materials you can find just by walking out
your back door and collecting the raw materials needed from your yard... or you
can even recycle your junk mail and create something of beauty from what would
have been your trash. With the emphasis on ecology and Green in today's world, this
is the perfect craft. Covers everything from collecting what you'll need from
creating the pulp to pressing and finally to drying your paper. Includes lots of
humorous tips like "how to keep a supply of pulp without serious conflicts
with immediate family, neighbors and the people across the street"... and
how to cheat with a blender to create your pulp mixtures. Serious instructions
amusingly presented... You'll be recycling, looking at weeds as potential sheets
of paper, and pulping to your hearts content!
On the title page: "This paper is an abstract of the laboratory work
pertaining to making paper from local weeds and remainders of local
harvests".
Condition as
shown, light wear, stain along bottom edge of front/back covers that does not
extend to inside pages, pages are clean and unmarked, binding is secure, overall very good condition.
(sku: CT09112377)
