Handmade Paper
iris, wild garlic, giant reed, abaca w/mimosa leaves, pineapple tops
daffodil, sanseveria, canna, chives, hostaAfter spending a day in Columbia, MO exploring the galleries, I spent two days at Leandra Spangler's studio making sheets of homemade paper. For those of you that don't know Leandra, she is a papermaker extraordinaire, and her website is Bear Creek Paperworks. A few years ago I was lucky enough to take a couple of papermaking classes and a bookbinding class from Leandra, and we have since become friends. Now I travel to her studio once or twice a year to create sheets of homemade paper. Leandra always has a great variety of natural plant pulps ready for experimentation. The first photo is the variety of papers from day one, and the second photo is from day two.
2 comments:
These are gorgeous, I look forward to seeing what you do with them.
Your papers are beautiful. I have not made any for a long time. You reminded me of the beauty and texture of handmade paper.
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