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, press, dry and finish your paper using both Eastern and Western methods.·         Embellish your paper with natural dyes and decorative materials like flower petals and pine needles·         Craft one-of-a-kind projects such as vegetable papyrus, multipaper collages, and shaped papers including envelopes, lampshades, specialty books, and covers. 

Papermaking with Plants

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hiebert, Helen

Crafts & Hobbies

Intellichoice Inc

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, press, dry and finish your paper using both Eastern and Western methods.
· Embellish your paper with natural dyes and decorative materials like flower petals and pine needles
· Craft one-of-a-kind projects such as vegetable papyrus, multipaper collages, and shaped papers including envelopes, lampshades, specialty books, and covers.

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

Storey Publishing, LLC.

Craft your own colorful paper goods and personalized stationary. With clear, step-by-step instructions, Helen Heibert covers all aspects of the papermaking process — from growing and harvesting plants for a malleable paper pulp to embellishment techniques like dyeing, embossing, and laminating. With tips on building your own papermaking equipment, ideas for transforming junk mail into dazzlingly unique notecards, and much more, you’ll be inspired to let your creativity shine as you explore the endless possibilities of handcrafted papers.

The Papermaker's Companion: The Ultimate Guide to Making and Using Handmade Paper

Storey

Create glowing, three-dimensional home furnishings with handmade paper. Helen Hiebert shows you how to use paper to craft textured lampshades, patterned window treatments, and stenciled room dividers that gently diffuse light and fill your home with a stylish warmth. Discover techniques to make your paper more interesting, including piercing, layering, and crayon batiking. With easy-to-follow instructions and full-color photographs of 15 stunning projects, you’ll be inspired to explore the endlessly exciting possibilities of mixing paper and light.

Paper Illuminated: 15 Projects for Making Handcrafted Luminaria, Lanterns, Screens, Lamp Shades and Window Treatments

Make exquisite papers right in your own kitchen. With a few pieces of basic equipment and a small harvest of backyard weeds, you can easily create stunningly original handcrafted papers. Helen Heibert’s illustrated step-by-step instructions show you how easy it is to blend and shape a variety of organic fibers into professional stationery, specialty books, and personalized gifts. You’ll soon be creatively integrating plant stalks, bark, flower petals, pine needles, and more to add unique colors and textures to your paper creations.

Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds

Explore the world of paper crafts with this inspiring book! This guide begins with a section that covers everything about paper, including cool tools, folding and cutting basics, and fasteners and glues. The next section is filled with 20 fun-filled projects, including:
- One-sheet books
- Lampshades
- Clothing
- Accessories
- Hot air balloons
- Origami
You’ll also find an extensive gallery of artists whose work relates to and expands upon each project.
Take a page from this creative guide and start Playing with Paper!

Playing with Paper: Illuminating, Engineering, and Reimagining Paper Art

Quarry Books

Enter the enchanting world of pop-ups and handmade paper crafts. Join author Helen Hiebert as she guides you through materials, tools and pop-up basics including parallel folds, angle folds, combinations and variations, and layered pop-ups. Enjoy creating 20 projects to play with ranging from cards and books to buildings, graphic design pieces, and more, plus access to downloadable templates. Featuring a high-end gallery of artists, whose beautiful work will inspire you to make your own amazing paper art, Playing with Pop-Ups will teach you to create interactive pieces that everyone will enjoy.

Playing with Pop-ups: The Art of Dimensional, Moving Paper Designs

Arts & Photography

Paper artist and teacher Helen Hiebert compiles a one-of-kind collection of 40 unique projects, each using just one sheet of paper. Combining decorative paper techniques like marbling, stamping, and stenciling&nbsp; with dimensional techniques like origami, cutting, folding, quilling, stretching, weaving, and pop-ups, The Art of Papercraft&nbsp;offers a rich variety of projects that will delight crafters, artists, and designers alike, including paper votive lights, pop-up cards, folded paper gift boxes and envelopes, woven paper wall hangings, miniature one-sheet books, and much more. Every project is beautifully photographed and accompanied by step-by-step visual instructions.&nbsp;Guidance on selecting tools, materials, and paper selection; in-depth technique instructions; and profiles of contributing paper artists make this a rich and practical celebration of papercraft.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Art of Papercraft: Unique One-Sheet Projects Using Origami, Weaving, Quilling, Pop-Up, and Other Inventive Techniques

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