Gail Stiffe From Plant to Paper Paper making with Plant Fibres

A 2 day, weekend workshop.

28th and 29th of June, 11am – 3pm.

Firestation Print Studio

$295 plus gst

$255 plus gst members

materials supplied

Maximum of 8.

Day 1

Learn how to select common garden plants and weeds into paper. Learn techniques for harvesting, preparation, cooking, beating and sheet forming. Paper can be made from cumbungi, NZ Flax, grasses, red hot poker and many barks. This session will be spent preparing and cooking fibre from Mulberry bark and ginger lily. Other pre-cooked fibres will be processed in preparation for making paper on the second day. The class is suitable for beginners and those who have done some papermaking.

Day 2

Learn to make sheets of paper from the pulps prepared on day one. You will learn what additives can be added to the vats to ease sheet formation, various ways to press and dry the papers and how to add dimension.

What to bring if you have them

Wooden or rubber mallet or a 60cm long piece of thick dowel (3-4 cm diam) (day 1)

Secateurs and scissors (day 1)

A clean paint roller standard size (20+cm) (day 2)