Papermaking with Plants: Creative Recipes and Projects Using Herbs, Flowers, Grasses, and Leaves

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.