The Art of Papermaking with Plants

Marie-Jeanne Lorente´

Lorente´, an experienced artist and teacher, tells you everything you need to know, from assembling the simple equipment to gathering and processing plant fibers, including cooking, bleaching, rinsing, adding textures to the pulp, and drying sheets of paper. Hundreds of beautiful color photographs illustrate the procedures as well as the plant materials and the unique papers they produce.

Offering step-by-step instructions for turning an array of common and exotic plants into artistic and useful sheets of paper, this title is ideal for the beginning papermaker as well as more seasoned artists and designers. The works of nine accomplished paper artists - whose creations run the gamut from sculpture and handmade books to hats - are included.