The Contemporary Craft of Paper Maché
Techniques Projects Inspirations by Helga Meyer, Lark Books, 1996
an exquisite book to look at whether or not you pursue creating paper vessels and objects. It's the book that started this particular journey of discovery or me. Highly recommended!
Papermaking for Basketry and Other Crafts
edited by Lynn Stearns,1992, Lark Books
Basket makers who work with paper forms share how-to. Excellent visual and informational references.
Papier Maché Style, 100 Step by Step Designs for bowls, jewelry, toys, vases, mirrors and other creations
by Alex McCormick, Chilton Book Company, 1995 x
Wow! Simply glorious and idea rich, the papier maché throne must be seen. I am just relieved to not see any of my design discoveries here, it's the kind of book that dazzles like Meyer's, with images that are at once daunting and engaging.
The Art and Craft of Papier Maché
by Juliet Bawden, 143 pages of 125 photos and over 100 diagrams, photography by Peter Marshall, Mitchell Beazley (England) 1990, 1995 Chronicle Books
A wide range of styles techniques, just wondrous includes Melanie Williams dolls Yanina Temple's hats, Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell and others
The Art and Craft of Papermaking
by Sophie Dawson, 144 pages, Running Press, Philadelphia (Quarto Publishing, 1992 England) ISBN 1-56138-158-6
Wow. Seminal. Packed with inspiration, how-tos, details, instructions and great images. A must for every papermaking and papier maché library - pulp painting, pulp spraying, sculptural techniques with paper (and not of the scissors-exacto knife type).
Rediscovering Papier Maché, How to Adapt the Art of Papier Maché to Make Vivid Modern Objects- 12 exciting projects
by Susanne Haines
An Owl Book, Henry Holt and Company, 1990(in England), 1993, 96 pages, ISBN 0-8050-2618
Photographer was Heini Schneebli, perhaps a relative of Deborah Schneebeli-Morrel, whose matisse meets Rousseau dolls and doll house are just sublimely inspiring, Marjori Elliot's energetic color forms are a new lexicon as is the work of Julie Arkell. England, it seems was ahead of us in this endeavor and I'm grateful I didn't see anything I am working on in there, otherwise I would cry, it is all so well conceived and represented.
Techniques and materials well explained, wonderful design.
Papier Maché A Practical Guide to Creative Crafts
by Miranda Innes, a Dorling Kindersley Book, photography by Clive Streeter
ISBN 0-7894-0335-8 First American Edition, 1995
Packed with projects but not as breathtaking as Meyer or McCormick or Haines but its darn good. Includes Melanie Williams' dolls, Yaninia Temple' Gerry Copp (of Paper into Pots) and Julie Arkel among others.
Paper Craft (based on Creative Hands published in the UK)
1993, US North Light Books, ISBN 089134-541-8
dozens of step by step paper craft projects to make, including papier maché jewelry, bowls and masks and great paper jewelry, paper blinds, bowls,
Step by Step Papier Maché
by Deri Robins, Kingfisher Books, New York: 1993.
Great ideas simply presented in a book meant for kids. Glad I went to their section of the library, found it, and borrowed it.
Making Your Own Papier Maché
by Melanie Williams ISBN -185368-325-6, New Holland (England), 1995 93 pages.
All her own designs and a range of energy and style is lacking. Nearly totally strip maché It's a nice next book for the kids, but Haines, Innes, and McCormick do it all much much better.
The Art and Craft of Paper
by Faith Shannon. Chronicle Books, 1994, photography by Peter Marshall
An overview of techniques.
Paper Pleasures, The Creative Guide to Papercraft
by Faith Shannon.
in association with Il Papiro, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 168 pages, ISBN 1-55584-105-8
Just like 1994 book, but I found it second. Includes making paper, the paper sampler, decorating paper, marbling, paper in three dimensions, and making books. I really appreciated the section on paste paper and printing.
The Art of Papermaking
by Bernard Toale, c 1983, Davis Publications, Worcester, Mass, ISBN: 087192-140-5, 120 pages
Excellent, information packed, a good reference as well as how-to book, belongs in every collection, lots of images of artists' work.
Plant Fibers for Papermaking
by Lillian Bell, Liliaceae Press, P.O. Box 1235 McMinnville, Oregon 77128 ISBN 0-9625076-5-2 Phone:503.472.3566(1970-1995 - the eighth printing)
If you desire, as I do, to truly make it from scratch, this is invaluable. If you desire to understand the effects of inclusions and what else you might use with purchased/prepared pulp, this is invaluable.
Paper into Pots and other fun objects using hand-made recycled paper and papier-maché techniques
by Gerry Copp c 1994 Search Press Limited, Market Ecology/Search Press Great Britain, ISBN 0 85532772-3 48 pages
An illustrated how-to, shown step by step, Gerry Copp gives us insight into her (mainly) pulp-based, handmade paper-decorated creations
Tonia Todman's Paper-Making Book
1992, 49 pages, ISBN 1 86351 097 4
After reading Faith Shannon's and Sophie Dawson's lifetime-of-inspiration books, this one is quite disappointing. I noticed it was published in Australia and this author is a TV personality there. Maybe that explains it. Dated images and limited information.
How to Make Your Own Recycled Paper
by Malcolm Valentine and Rosalind Dace, c 1990 Search Press Limited, Market Ecology/Search Press Great Britain, ISBN 0 85532 670 0 32 pages
an illustrated how to shown step by step, not much to it, its subject matter covered in several other books.
Teaching Hand Papermaking
http://soli.inav.net/~zpaper/
A Class Guide by Gloria Zmolek Smith, et al ZPaperpress, 1995 ISBN 0-9644582-0-9
A wonderful, thorough, inspiring book that teaches as it teaches how to teach
Grow Your Own Paper, recipes for creating unique handmade papers
by Maureen Richardson 1999, Quarto Publishing
Pretty pictures. Sometimes this is nice if you want the look of being informed, more "recipe" than instruction for growing anything. If you are not serious about the study about plants which yield pulp, or if you already have Lillian Bell's book, then acquire this one. Disagree about the banana skin recipe, too. I get a very different pulp from the same material (grrr!). The muddy color is when you don't rinse it enough.
300 Papermaking Recipes
by Mary Reimer and Heidi Reimer-Epp, 2000 Quarto Publishing Martin, Pastime
More pretty pictures. Some nice ideas and yes, 300 mixes of, and approaches to pulps to create various colors and textures of paper.
Papermaking with Plants, creative recipes and projects using herbs, flowers, grasses and leaves,
by Helen Hiebert 1998, Storey Books
Prettier but less info packed than Lillian Bells, though now I will go begging for hosta leaves.
The Papermaker's Companion the Ultimate Guide to Making and Using Handmade Paper,
by Helen Hiebert, Storey Books, 2000
Excellent in every way, thorough and comprehensive.
PAPERMAKING, how to make handmade paper for printmaking, drawing, painting, relief and cast forms, book arts and mixed media,
by Jules Heller, 1978, Watson-Guptill ISBN 0-8230-3895-5
A must read and see. This book must have been cutting edge because it is still compelling, it rocks, it is the bomb, choose your vernacular: superlative. I regret buying that sculpture book everyone recommends for its sad chapter on paper making--- this is the one people should be digging out. I just got it in 2001 from the library, wish to heaven I had found it when I began.
Making and Decorating Your Own Paper
Innovative Techniques and Original Projects
by Kathy Blake and Bill Milne, Sterling Publishing Co, Inc. New York ISBN 08069 0545-x, 1994
A well-designed book shockingly devoid of information. Nice to flip through-- think of it as an illustrated list of ideas
Making Books by Hand, A Step by Step Guide
create beautiful handmade scrapbooks, photo albums, diaries, blank books and more!
by Mary McCarthy Philip Manna 1997 ISBN 1564963284 Quarry Books
Well designed and features a great gallery.... uses a pictorial approach to show how to make books and somehow misses the mark.... succinct materials list vs. deciphering picture maps, would have been helpful diagrams and dimensions would have made this better, and not a lot of book forms are depicted.
The Essential Guide to Making Handmade Books
Easy to follow instructions for timeless binding techniques plus 28 unique variations
by Gabrielle Fox, North Light Books
nice how each form explanation is followed by a small gallery of ideas demonstrating of how and to where other artists used the form. I yearned for fewer pretty pictures for the step by step and more diagrams--- that the date be writ larger and the images (like an arrangement of materials on the cutting board, be made smaller) but I love how she drew out the Jacob's Ladder.
A Papermaker's Season by Gin Petty
Gin Petty's A Papermaker's Season (2004) is a wonderful journey through time, fields, plants and papermaking. She edifies, amuses and enlightens, all while giving us tangible results of her processes. We may touch time and experience the secret that papermakers and paper lovers share, not just how it looks but how the paper feels.
This tactile and sensory seduction begins before opening the book. The visual texture of the cover- ribbon and cloth, feels so good. It is a handsome object that suggests precious treatment.
But its content is too exciting and rich, necessary and practical, for the book to rest as adornment. I read that she picked the particular cover materials to encourage handling, anticipating that we would want to keep this at hand.
We journey with GP from April to November 2003 and are presented with 46 paper swatches made from 25 plants. We tromp around. We scrounge and scour with Gin, because, as the pulp seekers know, "every flower bed becomes fair game, even the neighbors." Though in every gathering, Gin is a model of rigor, seeking permission before collecting the cellulose prizes.
And in her openness and rigor, there is the gift of interaction. The stories she shares places the "delightfully subtle balance of materials and methods" that is paper, in a wondrous context.
I share that wonder, as the journey of experimentation has awakened in me a deep appreciation of every plant. GP sharpens the focus with humor, telling us where she ventured and how she made 'pulped, individuated, cellulose into a thin layer of intertwined fiber.'
She helpfully shares a list of blender friendly plants and tells us the best type of blender container. She distinguishes between the use of lye and soda ash; and the application of chlorine and hydrogen peroxide. She tells us when washing certain fibers yields a better paper. Yet this is not a how-to book. The accessible tone is between journal and letter-- it presumes you know something about the subject. You are colleague and cohort, friend over for coffee and peek in the vat.
The papermaking field needs more of this. This moves along the path of Lillian A. Bell's ground-breaking Plant Fibers for Papermaking, illuminating new options. Her search for the "color underneath" creates some gorgeous options as she combines bleached and unbleached pulps.
GPs generosity of spirit is evident here, as it is on her path-making online journal of the living experiment. With this book you get to hold her good works and feel the glory of being a maker.
Thank you, Gin, for being an exemplar and for sharing your journey.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060114040103/http://www.ginpetty.com:80/season.htm