On the even days during December, I’m highlighting the companies that are sponsors of the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar. These companies work hard to bring us beautiful papers, paper products, paper journalism, paper- and book making tools, paper history and more. Today, we learn about the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking.
In Search of Origins: The Research and Scholarship of Dard Hunter open through June 1, 2018
The Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking is an internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology. In addition to more than 2,000 books, the museum features a remarkable collection of over 10,000 watermarks, papers, tools, machines, and manuscripts. The museum’s mission is to collect, preserve, increase and disseminate knowledge about papermaking – past, present and future. The Museum features the Dard Hunter Collection of artifacts and books on paper and hand papermaking. Located in the Renewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Tech, the museum’s exhibits feature Hunter’s historic collection, tools from the early industrialization of papermaking, environmental issues related to papermaking, and changing gallery spaces.
Dard Hunter’s designs for A Catalog of Roycroft Books and Things, ca 1905
In Search of Origins: The Research & Scholarship of Dard Hunter is the newest exhibit at the museum. Focusing on Hunter’s written work, the exhibit includes focuses on the results of his extensive travels and study of paper. This exhibit explores the works produced as well as the work necessary to produce the many volumes Hunter wrote. In Search of Origins will be open until June 1, 2018.
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About Our Sponsor: The Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking is located in the Renewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Tech. Founded by Dard Hunter, the purpose of the museum is to preserve and promote hand papermaking. Find the museum on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
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About the 25 Days of Paper 2017: I’m delighted to share my ideas for using this amazing material with you. If you’d like more info about the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar or the online class, click here. Receive these blog updates via e-mail by adding your address in the upper right hand corner of this page. Enjoy the season!
On this shortest day of the year, I’d like to share a few paper lights with you.
HiiH Lights makes custom handmade paper lights in Astoria, Oregon. Be sure to browse all of their offerings! You can see them in many shop windows and restaurants in Portland and along the Oregon coast.
Jocelyn Chateauvert manipulates abaca like nobody else! She calls herself a paper wrangler, and she creates jewelry (she made my wedding pendant and earrings), lighting, sculpture and installations.
Hari & Deepti’s work is a pandora’s box full of stories and imagination that they bring to life through their intricate paper cut light boxes.
Isamu Noguchi is the grandfather of contemporary lighting design. Noguchi began the Akari series in 1951 during a visit to Gifu, Japan when he was inspired by the lanterns used in night fishing on the Nagara River. He went on to design more than 100 lights, which have manufactured by the Ozeki Company ever since. If you are ever in NYC, I highly recommend visiting the Isamu Museum & Sculpture Garden in Long Island City, which is located in Noguchi’s old studio.
Please feel free to share your favorite paper lights and artists who work with paper and light by leaving a comment below!
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We’re making a Candelabra Card (or a menorah) in the Twelve Months of Paper Online Class today. It’s not too late to join the class, which runs through December 23rd (a recent sign up was someone’s husband – she’s giving him the class (+ the cal/ppk as a gift). You’ll have access to the video tutorials throughout 2018, so you can make at your own pace! Find out more about the class and the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar.
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About the25 Days of Paper 2017: I’m delighted to share my ideas for using this amazing material with you. If you’d like more info about the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar or the online class, click here. Receive these blog updates via e-mail by adding your address in the upper right hand corner of this page. Enjoy the season!
On the even days during December, I’m highlighting the companies that are sponsors of the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar. These companies work hard to bring us beautiful papers, paper products, paper journalism, paper- and book making tools, paper history and more. Helen Hiebert Studio is the sponsor today, and I’d like to talk about the annual Red Cliff Paper Retreat.
My family relocated to the Vail Valley in 2012, and I was fortunate to find a unique studio space in the old school house in Red Cliff, an old mining town with a population of 265 at 9,000 feet above sea level (I live in Edwards, population 10,000, elevation 7221 ft., and I have a lovely commute to and from the studio).
I had a hunch that I might be able to gather a group in this somewhat remote location and the saying held true – If you build it, they will come. The retreat has taken place for four years now, the weekend after Labor Day. Participants have come from all over the United States, Panama and the UK. In 2017, I expanded the 3-day event and offered two 3-day retreats, with a break day in between. Several participants attended both sessions.
The theme this year Illuminated Paper, and we’ll be gathering September 7-9 and/or September 11-13, 2018. You can read all about it here, and registration is now open!
Every year we develop a special camaraderie as we work with paper in a variety of ways, exploring both wet and dry techniques. This is one of the few times I open my studio, and I invite you to join us!
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About the 25 Days of Paper 2017: I’m delighted to share my ideas for using this amazing material with you. If you’d like more info about the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar or the online class, click here. Receive these blog updates via e-mail by adding your address in the upper right hand corner of this page. Enjoy the season!
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I love beautiful packaging, and I remember spending hours in the Japanese department stores I visited in 1988, which is where I decided that paper was my thing. But I don’t wrap much. First of all, I don’t purchase many gifts; and second, wrapping seems like a bit of a waste.
Have you read the book How to Wrap 5 Eggs? It is filled with images of unusual wrappings and sentiments about the evolution of the Japanese culture and the time before mass production and materialism.
This article in The Atlantic tells the story about how wrapping paper became a popular item in the US. Here’s a hint. It has something to do with Hallmark.
There are some clever reusable wrapping traditions of old from Japan, called furoshiki.
and in Korea, bojagi.
If you do find yourself with an excess of wrapping paper this holiday season (or whenever), use this tutorial to create envelopes from the pretty papers!
What is your wrapping tradition? Leave a comment below!
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We’re turning envelopes and a decorative paper into a Falling Leaves Folding Screen that converts into a lantern in the Twelve Months of Paper Online Class today. It’s not too late to join the class, which runs through December 23rd (another newbie just signed up yesterday). You’ll have access to the video tutorials throughout 2018, so you can make at your own pace! Find out more about the class and the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar.
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About the 25 Days of Paper 2017: I’m delighted to share my ideas for using this amazing material with you. If you’d like more info about the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar or the online class, click here. Receive these blog updates via e-mail by adding your address in the upper right hand corner of this page. Enjoy the season!
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On the even days during December, I’m highlighting the companies that are sponsors of the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar. These companies work hard to bring us beautiful papers, paper products, paper journalism, paper- and book making tools, paper history and more. Today, we learn about Colophon Book Arts.
Colophon Book Arts Supply is owned and operated by Mary Uthuppuru in Bloomington, Indiana. It is primarily an online retail store serving the unique and widespread book arts community composed of beginning students to advanced professionals that practice, teach, and study making books by hand. Colophon serves the needs of this diverse group with an extensive stock of tools and materials for bookbinding, marbling and their related disciplines, and maintains an intimate connection with customers that has been fostered for years.
Colophon is offering a 10% discount code today through December 31st. Just type in “PAPERLOVE” at checkout.
Colophon has all of your bookbinding needs covered! Check out their selection of papers & boards, book cloth, sewing supplies, brushes and adhesives, cutting tools and accessories, and miscellaneous tools and supplies.
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About Our Sponsor:Colophon Book Arts provides individualized correspondence during the ordering process and personal connections at professional events. Colophon seeks to provide its customers with quality tools and materials that will inspire them to make great work.
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Paper of the Week: A 134-year old Paper Mill in Washington State
Check this out! Camas Washington’s High School mascot is called the Mean Machine, an animated paper roll machine that’s a nod to the town’s paper making history. The road that runs by the High School is Papermaker’s Way. In November, the company Georgia-Pacific announced it would be closing most of the mill’s paper and pulp production early next year. This is an interesting article about how this town has grown and changed with the times, bringing in other means of economy in the face of this industry dying out.
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In the Studio:
Believe it or not, I designed this logo over 25 years ago and am finally trying it out as a watermark!
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Have you seen The Last Jedi? I’m not a big Star Wars fan, but I have some family members who are going to see it. I do have to admit that this snowflake is pretty clever! Oh and BTW, did anyone else see a giant Imperial Walker in their local Walmart? It was there one day and gone the next!
I’ve written about the organization Paper for Water before… and this is such a wonderful story for the season on so many levels! Two sisters from Dallas, Isabelle and Katherine Adams, started their company when they were just 8 and 5 years old when they learned that girls in third world countries often did not go to school because they were hauling water all day, and that a child died every 15 seconds from unclean water. So they started a project making origami Christmas ornaments and exchanging them for donations to raise money for water wells. Their project grew into the non-profit organization Paper for Water, through which the girls have raised more than $1.3M and have helped fund over 150 water projects in fourteen countries. And this year, they’ve partnered with Neiman Marcus to sell even more ornaments and fund more wells. Talk about girl power!
This looks like a great exhibition if you’re in the Barnstable, MA area. The show at the Cahoon Museum of American Art runs through December 23rd: “Contemporary Silhouettes: The Art of Cut Paper.” I got curious about the illustrator of the image below. Lucy Gibbons Morse created all of the papercut illustrations for her book Breezes. It was a delight to page through it here.
A silhouette by Lucy Gibbons Morse from “Breezes” published in 1921
Has anyone been to see this at the Hirshhorn? Ann Hamilton’s installation At Hand, combines the sounds of mechanization and audio recordings of a poem with the motorized release of translucent white paper, which gently descends from the ceiling. It is part of a larger exhibition of 60 works that explore how artists use absence as a means of expression. What Absence is Made Of will be on view until summer 2019.
Did you catch this story on NPR a few weeks ago? The radio crew made their way to Kentucky to visit Larkspur Press, where for more than 40 years Gray Zeitz has been creating books one at a time in his two-story print shop near the town of Monterey.
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On the even days during December, I’m highlighting the companies that are sponsors of the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar. These companies work hard to bring us beautiful papers, paper products, paper journalism, paper- and book making tools, paper history and more. Today, we learn about Reminiscence Papers.
Reminiscence Papers is an online store selling papers and supplies for artists and craftspersons working in various media. Reminiscence offers papers in several sizes, as well as letterpress type, collage paper, vintage buttons, bookbinding paper, toy parts (new and vintage), origami paper, twill tapes and so much more. Many, but not all, of the papers in the Reminiscence Papers line are designed by Debra Glanz, and while all of these were designed primarily for book arts, they have found a much wider range of applications.
Debra uses some of her papers and ephemera to create whimsical artwork as well! Give yourself plenty of time to browse the more than 500 items listed in her Etsy Shop.
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About Our Sponsor: Debra Glanz isa paper artist/bookbinder/paper designer/mixed media fool who has had many, many, many occasions to seek and acquire any number of bits and pieces that she just knew she would be able to use in her work………..someday. And usually she does. However, things have started piling up and the elves that are supposed to come into her studio every night to organize and tidy up have gone on strike and refuse to cross the threshold until she “lightens the load”. That and something about paid vacations and a fully funded dental plan. (Who knew the elf union was so powerful). To that end, she has agreed to part with an unreasonably large percentage of her treasures – lucky you!
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About the 25 Days of Paper 2017: I’m delighted to share my ideas for using this amazing material with you. If you’d like more info about the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar or the online class, click here. Receive these blog updates via e-mail by adding your address in the upper right hand corner of this page. Enjoy the season!
Last year around this time, I was looking at a pile of catalogs/junk mail on my dining room table. And I envisioned this book sculpture. I created a half-tree template, laid the catalog on my cutting mat, grabbed my Xacto knife and cut out this tree shape. Voilá, a book tree!
The pages were already “bound” with the staples that held the catalog pages together. My mind started spinning, and I found these interesting two-sided glossy papers in my paper stash. I started creating this series of buildings. I love how they collapse!
Do you have a catalog laying on your dining room or office table? Or a unique paper waiting to be turned into something new? Here’s a tip: a flat bottom on your design will make your book sculpture stand nicely. Otherwise, you can hang it (like an ornament)! Ready… set… go, and send me a picture if you create something!
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We’re making these Collapsible Buildings using brightly colored lokta papers in the Twelve Months of Paper Online Class today. It’s not too late to join the class, which runs through December 23rd (a newbie just signed up yesterday). You’ll have access to the video tutorials throughout 2018, so you can make at your own pace! Find out more about the class and the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar.
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About the 25 Days of Paper 2017: I’m delighted to share my ideas for using this amazing material with you. If you’d like more info about the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar or the online class, click here. Receive these blog updates via e-mail by adding your address in the upper right hand corner of this page. Enjoy the season!
On the even days during December, I’m highlighting the companies that are sponsors of the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar. These companies work hard to bring us beautiful papers, paper products, paper journalism, paper- and book making tools, paper history and more.
Today, Helen Hiebert Studio is sponsoring the post, and I’d like to introduce my upcoming online class, Paper Weavings. Registration will open in January, and the 6-week class begins February 7th.
Have you taken an online class, and if so, what did you like about it? What didn’t you like? Feel free to leave a comment below. Most of my online class participants report that it’s a first for them, and I’m so happy they trusted me enough to try it! Now don’t get me wrong – I LOVE teaching in person and will continue to do so – but I find online teaching to be rewarding for a variety of reasons.
Last week, I had a meeting with a business accountability buddy, and we helped each other plan out our next six months. Among many other things, I decided that I’m going to offer a new online class every winter, followed by a repeat class in the spring or summer (those of you who are waiting for Paper Illuminated to be offered again, stay tuned)! I’ll be offering some self study options as well.
If you have followed the blog for awhile, you might remember the 100 x 100 Paper Weavings Project I did in 2013 (one weaving every day for 100 days). I can’t wait to introduce you to the Paper Weavings Online Class. This will incorporate a gorgeous selection of Japanese papers (if you choose to purchase the kit I’m assembling); several weaving techniques including shaped weavings and cut-outs; and projects ideas such as cards, books, lanterns and more.
About the 25 Days of Paper 2017: I’m delighted to share my ideas for using this amazing material with you. If you’d like more info about the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar or the online class, click here. Receive these blog updates via e-mail by adding your address in the upper right hand corner of this page. Enjoy the season!
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I share this at least once a year, because even if you’ve seen it, I think it is fun to revisit.
Papermaking on Sesame Street was one of the highlights of my career. I worked with a film editor, who came up with the lyrics for this catchy song and hired a singer to perform it.
Robbin Ami Silverberg and a group of kiddos spent an entire day in the studio with me at Dieu Donné Papermill in NYC about 20 years ago.
Enjoy!
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We’re making this Butterfly Book in the Twelve Months of Paper Online Class today. It’s not too late to join the class, which runs through December 23rd. You’ll have access to the video tutorials throughout 2018, so you can make at your own pace! Find out more about the class and the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar.
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About the 25 Days of Paper 2017: I’m delighted to share my ideas for using this amazing material with you. If you’d like more info about the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar or the online class, click here. Receive these blog updates via e-mail by adding your address in the upper right hand corner of this page. Enjoy the season!
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About Me
Hi, I'm Helen Hiebert!
I'm an artist working primarily in handmade paper; I write how-to books and make films about papermaking and paper arts; and I love learning about new techniques and methods for working with paper! You can learn more about me at http://www.helenhiebertstudio.com
