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Creating Decorative Paper
by Paula Guhin

Publisher: Stackpole
Edition: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9780811736466

While an infinite variety of ready-made paper exists, luscious papers decorated with your own hands can be customized to fit a particular theme, motif, and color scheme. This book shows how to decorate your own paper with simple techniques and everyday materials. The author explains how to use scraping, layering, solvents, resists, wet-in-wet effects, stamping, and many other methods to produce beautiful decorative papers. The techniques incorporate many creative and easy to find tools and materials: salt, craft glue, bubble wrap, waxed paper, bottle caps, instant coffee and more. Filled with inspiring photos of beautiful decorated papers and step-by-step instructions - including paper flowers, rolled-paper beads, and an altered book journal - that will get readers started using their own decorative papers.

Price: £16.99

Paper Making
"Beautiful Papers and Projects to Make in a Weekend"
by Claudia K Lee

Publisher Lark
Edition Paperback

If you still haven't experienced the joys of producing your own paper for letters and invitations then what are you waiting for? After all - it takes only a weekend to master these 20 introductory projects that showcase the basic styles of papermaking, embellishing, and turning paper into decorative and functional objects.

Price: £12.95

The Complete Book of Papermaking
by Josep Asuncion

Publisher Batsford
Edition Hardback

This beautifully illustrated volume brings together the theory and practice of papermaking. Beginning with an historical overview, the diverse characteristics and qualities of paper are considered, as well as the materials, tools, equipment and technicalities involved in its origination. It concludes with a series of step-by-step creative exercises, including how to build a home press, making a sheet of paper and adding decorative materials to paper.

Price: £17.99

The Handmade Paper Book
by Angela Ramsay

Publisher New Holland
Edition Paperback

This stunningly illustrated book features practical projects for making beautiful papers from a range of materials, as well as ideas on how to make use of them.

Price: £7.99

Papermaking for Printmakers
by Elspeth Lamb

Publisher A & C Black
Edition Paperback

Paper is probably the most important factor to a printmaker; the paper used is integral to the finished piece and can determine the whole look of a print. This book points the way for artists working in both the fields of print and papermaking to the huge variety of possibilities. Making your own paper grants printmakers absolute control over their print, often resulting in a work of extraordinary richness and beauty.

Price: £14.99

Silk Paper
by Valerie Goodbury

Publisher Crowood Press
Edition Paperback

Silk paper-making takes the beautiful individual fibres of silk, adds a suitable adhesive and creates a lovely new material. The richness of the fibres gives the papers a unique and luxurious texture that encourages its application in a wide variety of ways. This book introduces the wonderful range of silk fibres that are available and then describes how to turn them into sheets of ‘paper’ and forms of decoration. Lavish illustrations, together with step-by-step instructions, make this book an ideal starting point for this new and exciting craft, while providing inspiration for those experienced in other forms of arts and crafts.

Price: £14.99

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