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A quilled basket of flowers. Paper craft is a collection of crafts using paper or card as the primary artistic medium for the creation of two or three-dimensional objects. . Paper and card stock lend themselves to a wide range of techniques and can be folded, curved, bent, cut, glued, molded, stitched, or layere
Papermaking is the manufacture of paper and cardboard, which are used widely for printing, writing, and packaging, among many other purposes. Today almost all paper is made using industrial machinery , while handmade paper survives as a specialized craft and a medium for artistic expression .
By the mid-19th century, making paper by hand was extinct in the United States. [5] By 1912, fine book printer and publisher, Dard Hunter had reestablished the craft of fine hand paper making but by the 1930s the craft had lapsed in interest again. [5] During World War II, Howell served in the military for five years. [1]
Dard Hunter, self-portrait in watermark Front of the Mountain House in Chillicothe. William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (November 29, 1883 – February 20, 1966) was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand, using sixteenth-century tools and techniques.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) is the largest and most comprehensive independent nonprofit book arts center in the United States. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, MCBA is a nationally recognized leader [1] in the celebration and preservation of traditional crafts, including hand papermaking, letterpress printing and hand bookbinding, as well as the use of these traditional techniques ...
[36] [37] The paper-making innovations in Central Asia may be pre-Islamic, probably aided by the Buddhist merchants and monks of China and Central Asia. The Islamic civilization helped spread paper and paper-making into the Middle East after the 8th-century. [36] By 981, paper had spread to Armenian and Georgian monasteries in the Caucasus. [38]
Japanese Papermaking: Traditions, Tools and Techniques, Weatherhill, 1983, ISBN 978-0-8348-0185-1 Nagashizuki: the Japanese craft of hand papermaking , North Hills, Pa.: Bird & Bull Press, 1979 [4] Paper through Time: Nondestructive Analysis of 14th- through 19th-Century Papers, The University of Iowa, 2012.
Before the mechanization of papermaking, paper was made by hand, using a wire sieve mounted in a rectangular mould to produce a single sheet at a time. A papermaker would dip the mould into a vat containing diluted pulp of hemp or linen fibers, then lift it out, tilt it to spread the pulp evenly over the sieve and, as the water drained out between the wires, shake the mould to lock the fibers ...