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Summary: delightful and elegant coffe table book
Review: This is a delightful and elegant coffee table book for paper artists and enthusiasts. Its small size makes it handy to display almost anywhere and the spiral binding makes in easy to leaf through. The book starts out with overview of paper including history and a summary of how paper is made and the materials used to make it. An explanation of techniques used to color and decorate paper follow. These include dyeing, marbling and watermark creation. International paper creation methods from Japan, India and Nepal are also included. These are not intended as instruction, rather as a general guide to papermaking methodology. The remainder of the book is beautiful gallery featuring a wide variety of over 30 pieces of paper artwork. Many exotic, unusual and dimensional styles are represented. Each piece of artwork is displayed by itself on a single page. On the opposite page, along with the artwork title, size and date completed there is background information on and a quote from the artist. A glossary, index and list of artists with contact information make this book complete. This will make a great gift paper lovers and serve as inspiration to any papermaker.
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