Craft your own colorful paper goods and personalized stationary. With clear, step-by-step instructions, Helen Heibert covers all aspects of the papermaking process — from growing and harvesting plants for a malleable paper pulp to embellishment techniques like dyeing, embossing, and laminating. With tips on building your own papermaking equipment, ideas for transforming junk mail into dazzlingly unique notecards, and much more, you’ll be inspired to let your creativity shine as you explore the endless possibilities of handcrafted papers.

The classic work on papermaking, this book traces the craft's history from its invention in China to its introductions in Europe and America. The foremost authority on the subject covers tools and materials; hand moulds; pressing, drying, and sizing; hand- and machine-made paper; watermarking; and more. Over 320 illustrations.Reprint of the second, revised, and enlarged 1947 edition.

Alfred Bekker and Silke Bekker The size of this book corresponds to 444 paperback pages. A passionate love story between two worlds. Around 1000 AD in western China: a group of papermakers are abducted by Uyghurs and taken to the west. Among them are Master Wang and his beautiful daughter Li. In Samarkand, Li meets the Saxon knight Arnulf von Ellingen, who is immediately fascinated by the paper maker. A passionate love develops between the two. But when Arnulf falls victim to an intrigue, they both have to flee, and an adventurous journey via Venice to Magdeburg begins .. .

This book sheds light on every facet of this time-honored craft and offers complete instruction s on how to duplicate its exquisite results in the West.

Everyone involved in paper making knows Asten as a world class manufacturer of paper machine clothing. Perhaps less well known is that Asten started in this industry more than 120 years ago. Since then the company has taken advantage of modern manufacturing techniques to produce innovative products needed by the growing paper making industry. That is why Asten commissioned Dr. Sabit Adanur to write this book - to continue spreading sophisticated papermaking knowledge throughout the global paper industry. This book discusses how the latest technological innovations help produce quality paper products. It also covers the use of TQM and computers in the papermaking process as basic paper structure and properties.

This comprehensive collection of paper-making ideas provides step-by-step illustrated recipes for creating handmade papers from a variety of materials and equipment readily available in any kitchen.