Japanese Paper Crafting
Japanese Paper Crafting: Create 17 Paper Craft Projects & Make Your Own Beautiful Washi Paper
by Michael G. LaFosse, with Richard L. Alexander and Greg Mudarri
Hardcover (8.5x11 inches, 128 pages)
Tuttle Publishing, December 2007
ISBN-13:
9780804838481
Across the country interest in paper crafts is booming. People from all walks of life are creating scrapbooks, making gift cards and learning origami. Washi, a traditional handmade paper originating in Japan, is a perfect accompaniment to these crafts. Japanese Paper Crafting teaches the essentials of making beautiful and unusual washi paper at home.
Using diagrams and photographs, this book's step-by-step instructions will show both novice and experienced paper artists how to make washi paper and how to create 17 exciting washi projects with their own handmade paper! Projects include a hand-bound blank book; purses and wallets; desktop and tabletop accessories.
The book contains instructions for creating:
- Japanese Origami Crane
- Senbazuru: Ehiroi
- Senbazuru: Imoseyama
- Senbazuru: Seigaiha
- Hana Tsutsumi
- Noshi Awabi
- Sailboat Envelope
- Masu Box
- Wallet or Clutch Purse
- Crane's Egg Modular Box
- Tato
- Vase Cover
- Desktop Organizer (Pen/Pencil/Brush Holder)
- "Ceramic" Form with Chigiri-e
- Tulip Bowl
- Hurricane Bowl
- Sewn-Bound Washi Book
This book also includes instructions and detailed photos for making your own washi. The following are a sampling of photos illustrating the process:
- Boiling the fiber
- Sorting & cleaning the fiber
- Pulp ready for forming
- Nagashizuki sheet-forming
- Pressing the post of wet sheets & felts
- Drying sheets on a flat surface...
- ...or in a stack with blotters
