Papermaking Techniques Book

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Papermaking Techniques Book provides clear, step-by-step instruction to help crafters of any experience level create unique and elegant handmade paper. Talented papercrafter Kath Russon guides beginners in discovering the pleasures of handmade papers—from textural papers in all shades to scented papers containing flowers, leaves, seeds, and grasses; watermarked papers; embossed papers, and shaped papers. She details over 50 step-by-step techniques from start to finish, including selecting the right equipment, choosing and preparing fibers, sheet forming, sheet sizing, and how to employ a wide range of embellishments to create lovely papers of every description. Finished handmade papers from professional papermakers are pictured to provide inspiration and show the practical application of each technique, while full projects appropriate to each chapter allow readers to put the skills they have learned into context.