Papermaking

The path to my papermaking adventure is somewhat long, but I hope not too boring.

My sister and also a POM member, Devora, wanted to do something together.  In 2017, we took a marbling on fabric course with Sabine Spare, who later presented at one of the POM meetings.

This is the result

We were looking for another fun art-related thing to do together and decided to take a paper-making course.  We found a place in New Dundas, Ontario called "The Paper Trail" and were all excited to sign up as soon as I returned from my son's wedding in Israel, in March 2020.  See where this is going? Obviously, we did not take the course.  I did, however, in June 2020 order handmade paper from them, in two sizes - 5" X 7" and 8 1/2" X 11".

So the paper was delivered and what was I going to do with it?

First I made these, using bits and pieces from leftover fabrics from my nieces' tallitot, wedding dresses, buttons, beads, etc:

I bought this frame from Dollarama:

 

And framed them.  So for $12.00 for the frames, $3.60 for the paper (plus tax), I had this:

I also made these:

I also used my laser printer to print these music pages from my father's Klezmer book:

Just a note here that this paper is quite thin if it can go through the printer.  I did the music on a larger sheet and tore it down the middle to give it the same unsmooth edge.

 

  

This burst of paper creativity ended a few months later when I returned to my quilting

and sewing

And then a few months ago Devora and I took an online course at the Aga Khan Museum about illuminated manuscripts which included papermaking  where the papermaking involved many steps including machinery and equipment

 

I decided to consult with my new best friend You Tube and found tens of videos showing how to make paper using as little machinery and equipment as possible