Grow Your Own Paper : Recipes for Creating Unique Handmade Papers

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Summary: For beginning hobby papermakers
Review: Grow Your Own Paper is full of beautiful pictures of decorative papers made with plant inclusions and plants - which are of themselves, wonderfully inspiring even to someone who regularly makes pretty plant papers. What it is not full of is detailed papermaking info. As far as I can tell, beating methods are limited only to using a blender which leaves out the wonderful low tech method of handbeating, and no time is given to more advanced methods such as using a Hollander. However it does give a good quick description of how to make wood ash alkali solution as well as a good variety of drying techniques with their results - the best I've seen so far. But my overall feeling is that if you want to understand much about the processes that make paper, it lacks depth. A pretty book. and if you're just starting out, it would give you lots of inspiration for using flora, but for people who already know anything about papermaking, expect the high point to be the photos and if you want a much more detailed and useful guide to growing, harvesting and using plants to make paper and a truly broad range of info on equipment and techniques, get "Papermaking with Plants" Helen Heibert

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Summary: One of my favorites!
Review: I loved this book! It is one of the best that I have. Even though it only covers a small portion of the wide world of papermaking it does it very well. It is a great book for the beginning papermaker that is starting out in the kitchen.

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Summary: One of my favorites!
Review: I loved this book! It is one of the best that I have. Even though it only covers a small portion of the wide world of papermaking it does it very well. It is a great book for the beginning papermaker that is starting out in the kitchen.