From the Fields and Rows: Seed to Hand Paper Making

In keeping with the mission and values of Sanborn Mills Farm students will be immersed in a creative natural environment that includes gardens, fields, rows, and forest resources to explore old-fashioned ways that can be integrated into modern life. During the five days of learning about hand paper making students learn how to make their own paper using regenerative sustainable practices.  Working with seasonal agricultural fibers will connect students to the natural flow of the growing season.  Work through natural materials to determine outcomes.  Learn seed to paper working while learning about harvested materials and how to design specific outcomes.  Learn when to harvest, storage options for raw materials and pulps, ways to use documentation, seed saving, and how to plant a dye and paper-making garden.   Learn to cook and process materials for pounding, pulp creation, sheet formations, and two and three-dimensional options.  Work with a variety of hand paper-making tools both western and eastern, washi.  Explore options for using pulp to create two and three-dimensional works as well as how to create a handmade artist book introducing simple bookbinding stitches.  Leave this five day workshop with an expanded vocabulary, and understanding of tool use, sizing, and how to dry and press.  Examine and use different types of mould and deckles including deckle boxes, as well as the su and keta.  Depart the five days with a variety of papers from different pulps that connect you with Sanborn Mills Farm and the knowledge to continue the hand-paper-making process at home.

Materials Fee: $100 paid directly to the instructor for personal mould and deckle to keep and expendable supplies.

Special Tools or Equipment: None

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