HANDMADE PAPER SOURCE

I have taught Art for over 30 years in Australia and U.K. and been supplying handmade paper products and equipment all over Australia & New Zealand and presenting workshops in TAFE colleges and schools throughout Victoria since 1986.My comprehensive workshops demonstrate how to create beautiful hand-made paper for the folio, classroom or home, following the authentic papermaking tradition going back 2000 years. Poor quality paper is usually the result of poor quality equipment or poor technique. You do not need to buy a great deal of expensive equipment to make good recycled paper, but it should be good enough to do the job. A kit with a rigid supporting grid under the mould is essential, if you want to put your paper through a printer of any sort... Many novice papermakers make their pulp much too thick for their purpose. In my workshop we discuss the importance of diluting the pulp according to the product you wish to make. For example if you want to make envelopes, which are to be..