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300 Papermaking Recipes

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This is a wonderful reference book for the first time papermaker! The techniques are simple and the resource directory is helpful in finding those hard-to-get supplies. Though at first the whole process might seem alittle overwhelming, if you follow the recipes, you will always come out with a georgous paper. I highly recommend this book to the beginner and those who have been at it for awhile.

Before getting this book I felt like there was just one way to make paper - buy the cotton pulp from the craft store, add some flowers or dye. This book really opened me up the possibilities. I think what first got my attention was when the authors wrote that you can use almost anything for pulp including brown paper gags, garden plants etc. I also love how there are ideas on adding texture - I would never have thought to use lace and string to emboss the paper or woven placemats to add texture. The pictures and instructions are all very clear. I was pretty new to paper making prior to buying this book - basically just relying on the instructions from my deckle but this really is a cool recipe book. Recipes are about 8 to each two-page spread and are very straightforward - e.g. 1 cup of lime pulp, 2 tsp metallic confetti followed by a paragraph on how best to mix the ingredients and what to expect. Large pictures of the resulting paper is shown too. The recipes are broken out into subjects such as textures with households items, fabric embossing, pouring and embedding, recycled pulps (using junk mail, construction paper), pigments (using tissue and food coloring) etc. Really a wealth of ideas are packed into this book. I love it.

I recently purchased this book, and had considered (sorry Amazon)
sending it back, since it wasn't at all what I'd been looking for. However, after Reading it through, and enjoying the Beautiful Illustrations I decided to keep it. As a practical guide, it is definately well suited for the person wanting to try their hand at paper making, and having no previous experiance
at all. It is not a good guide for the intermediate paper maker, or for those looking for detailed information regarding the construction of paper making equipment, or the use of more advanced techniques. A good guide for beginning hobbyists...and a lovely, addition to the bookshelf.

The book is helpful but I found that the same recipes were duplicated but just with different colors. No tips on how to make paper, just recipies. Good book if you wnt information on how to make pulp from natural resources.

Though this book wasn't exactly what I had expected, I found it to be a fine resource for straightforward and easy to follow recipes. It's loaded with crisp photos and great ideas. While it doesn't offer much in the way of information on casting, I heartily recommend this book to those looking for paper recipe how-to and inspiration.

Learn to make handmade papers with this survey of papermaking recipes for producing a variety of textures and colors. Two papermaking artists provide all the ingredients for success and tell how to garnish paper with threads, string, leaves and other accents.

This book is a great reference source and the numerous sample pictures make it very good for choosing the types of paper you wish to make without failed batches.

As this book was published in 2000 and is no longer available unless by other sellers, I feel that this should not short change the book. It is by far one of the best books for beginning paper makers available. Techniques and tools are clearly given with wonderful photos of the step-by-step process. Great basic information on how to use plant fibers/products for paper is also clearly described in the techniques. Once you have the techniques down, the "recipes" follow and for each recipe, the resulting products is reproduced in full color which is helpful in deciding whether or not I want my hand-made paper end product to look like. The section on how plants, their various components, herbs, and flowers can really change the paper produced is wonderful. Understanding how cotton vs. abaca pulp produces varying paper qualities was well written, along with the areas discussing the various types of recycled papers (e.g. newsprint - not recommended and reasons why; various types of scrap paper - smooth to heavy paper - and their resulting texture when processed into new hand-made paper). All of these are critical when desiring a specific end product and this book, its words, images, background information (in boxed areas through the book), have been very helpful in getting me started with papermaking. I have to also state that this is the best book I have used with my beginning efforts. Other books do have this information, but not in the organized way that this book provides.

This papermaking book gives clear recipes for each paper. For many of the papers, different colors are shown; very helpful! It was a great idea book as well. For example, there are recipes using various spices. I tried a larger variety of spices and got some great results!