Color for the hand papermaker

Koretsky, Elaine

Carriage House Press

First edition,limited to 2000 numbered copies. An interesting collection of essays on papermaking. Includes Alexandra Soteriou on India's papermaking, Dorothy Field on Shan papermaking in Northern Thailand, an article on beaters, and other articles by Elaine and Donna Koretsky and Winifred Lutz. Illustrated. 75 pages. stiff paper wrappers, printed paper wrapper.. 4to..

Gathering of Papermakers

Carriage House Pr

The invention of paper in China more than 2,000 years ago was a wondrous discovery. Worn out fishnets, hemp rags, and rope were soaked, beaten to a pulp, and then the watery mass was poured onto a cloth stretched over a wooden frame. On its surface, a web of fibers coalesced. After drying in the sun, the sheet of paper was gently pulled from the cloth. Although many uses for paper were discovered, the most important was as a superb writing surface. Over a millennium, papermaking spread throughout China, then east to Korea and Japan, and finally west along the Silk Road to the rest of the world. The materials, tools, and techniques changed according to what was available to particular environments. A few scholars have written about hand papermaking in china, but none has been as thorough as Elaine Koretsky. Her remarkable journeys have taken her from the Taklimakan and Gobi Deserts to the Himalayas. Over the course of eighteen field expeditions, she has located forty-two, often remote villages that represent unbroken traditions of papermaking by hand. She interviewed the papermakers, recorded their histories, and documented their processes in both film and digital formats, and in print. Enlightening as well as entertaining, Killing Green chronicles many of the trips that Elaine has made to China over more than a quarter of a century. 217 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo.

Killing Green: An Account of Hand Papermaking in China

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