Papermaking with Plants

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.