Lisa sent me one of her delightful par avion notebooks. The cover is Lisa's own handmade paper, and features a brilliant watermark of the books title. The pages inside are a delightful mix of pamphlet stitched plain, lined, squared and other papers.
In addition, Lisa sent me an assortment of her other handmade papers, including a notelet and envelope (too good to use!), and some gorgeous joss papers. I'll have to think up something to make with them.
Please visit Lisa's blog - Parallel Botany - It's well worth a browse, and bookmark.
2 comments:
Thanks for the mention, I'm glad you like the goodies!
I'm not very good at keeping recipes, unfortunately. I'll try to remember for you:
-The grey paper (circles & envelopes) are a mix of abaca, sisal, and black cotton rag pulps.
-The purple paper is a mix of red and blue cotton rag pulps.
-I *think* the large beige sheet is a mix of white cotton rag pulp and recycled junk mail, colored with tan cold water fabric dye.
-The large red, white & blue sheet was made with pulped tickets leftover from a baseball game.
-The par avion paper is a abaca/sisal/blue cotton rag mix, with a bit of blue cotton and red cotton added after being treated with a coagulant, to keep the colors separate.
Phew!
Thanks Lisa. I have a bucket of half inch squares of denim, retting in water. They've been in there for a couple of months now, but no signs of eakening. I'll have to cook them with soda ash i guess.
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