Helen’s 100 Papery Picks 2023

Comfortable New 12 months! Whether or not you’re simply discovering this weblog otherwise you’ve adopted it from the start (we’re arising on Publish #500!!) thanks for following alongside on this paper journey.

That is the third annual finish of the 12 months listing of 100 of my favourite papery issues – from instruments to tutorials, inspirations to on-line explorations – I hope you get pleasure from studying by it as a lot as I loved placing it collectively.

I might like to know your favorites too – please go away your feedback under. You’ll discover that a number of of the advisable objects got here from different paper lovers this 12 months. Thanks!

Be happy to share this listing together with your paper-loving mates. Take pleasure in!

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Paper: Determining which paper will work finest for a specific challenge is hard, however it may be a pleasant journey. There are such a lot of qualities – thickness, opacity, foldability – to call just a few. My recommendation: attempt it and see if it really works. If it does, it turns into a favourite paper. If it doesn’t, you discovered one thing!

1. O-Gami papers are crisp, robust, stunning, and ideal for anybody who needs a superior folding paper. Paper Circle makes these 100% abaca handmade sheets in a wide range of richly pigmented colours.
2. Free Ends advertises itself as uncommon supplies for unusual artists, they usually actually do have uncommon papers, most of that are small batches from impartial papermakers within the USA and overseas. In addition they promote uncommon ribbons, ephemera, and natural textiles. Really useful by Helen Spielman.
3. French Paper is a business mill within the US. They’ve began promoting multi-packs – you get a choice of a number of colours – which makes it straightforward to discover their paper collections.
4. Kozo Studio in Thailand creates all kinds of handmade and ornamental machine-made kozo papers. Free delivery on orders over $99.
5. Consider a particular want and write it on Flying Want Paper, after which form your paper right into a tube and place it on a platform. Gentle the highest fringe of the tube and watch it burn down in a small, stunning flame.
6. Rock Paper is a novel substrate that’s waterproof, cuts, folds and embosses effectively, and you’ll work on it with a wide range of media. Some sheets are translucent, and the small sheets are available in beautiful colours.
7. Acuity Papers is a household owned on-line retailer of Superb Artwork Paper. They carry a wide array of printmaking and drawing papers from all over the world.
8. Ilan Garibi and Gadi Vishne, over at Comfortable Folding, have evaluated over two dozen widespread and unusual origami papers and gathered collectively details about sourcing, costs, and which methods the paper is finest for. Really useful by Madonna Yoder.
9. The Handmade Paper Alternate is an annual paper swap of full sheets of handmade paper. Ship some, get some! Deadline is January 15.
10. Origami-Store (in France) has a implausible choice of uncommon papers for origami, together with a number of the finest books on the topic.

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Methods: There are such a lot of methods to remodel paper, and I’m fascinated with all of them! Take a stroll on the wild facet with paper by following the hyperlinks under – you may simply find yourself in a paper vortex.

1. The items I’ve seen that have been impressed by Paula Krieg’s current collection of Seminole Patchwork with Paper are unbelievable. I like how she had an concept and developed it along with her on-line group.
2. There are such a lot of methods to weave paper! Take a look at how Sia Hurtigkari is exploring scale, colour, and end.
3. Chilean artist Catalina Swinburn’s elaborate sculptures use 1000’s of items of folded paper to discover world historical past. She is drawn to concepts round migration and displacement, turning materials derived from books, paperwork, and maps into large-scale wall items and complex, robe-like compositions.
4. Get a glimpse into how Awagami Manufacturing unit creates handmade paper for a group of beautiful wallets for the corporate PostalCo.
5. This work, by Sanaa Gateja, is created from rolled paper beads. The manufacturing of his supplies gives sustainable employment for craftswomen throughout Uganda.
6. Xavier Casalta creates his works on paper, one dot at a time. He estimates {that a} current piece comprises about 48 million dots of meticulously stippled black ink.
7. This can be a beautiful profile of Ramona Garcia, who hosts workshops to show others in regards to the historical past of the standard Mexican paper mache doll and incorporates artwork remedy to advertise psychological well being.
8. Colette Fu was artist-in-residence at BIMA and created this big pop-up ebook referred to as 许愿树 (Wishing Tree).
9. Yulia Brodskaya by no means ceases to amaze! Over the previous 12 months, the artist has developed a collection during which she portrays the “folks of Gaia”—a hopeful imaginative and prescient of what folks shall be like sooner or later – utilizing her distinctive paper quilling approach.
10. I’ve loved watching the evolution of Matt Shlian’s sculptural work with paper over time.

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On-line Sources: I’m nonetheless a fan of precise books, paper, and libraries, however there’s no arguing that the web permits us to share and find out about issues we’d by no means uncover within the analog world. Many of those are repeats, they usually’re value repeating! Listed here are ten blogs and organizations that unfold the love of paper.

1. The Worldwide Affiliation of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) is a membership group for paper artists.
2. Ann Martin delights in showcasing the perfect paper artwork and craft created by worldwide artisans by way of the Artist Highlight collection on her allthingspaper.internet weblog. Additionally featured are step-by-step paper craft tutorials, the most recent paper artwork and paper craft books, in addition to spherical ups of paper jewellery, handmade ornaments, paper crafting kits, and so forth. She sends out a colourful e-newsletter each three weeks that’s loaded with much more paper-y goodness. Subscribe to her e-newsletter.
3. Hand Papermaking’s print and on-line publications chronicle the best work within the discipline of hand papermaking, whereas advancing the scholarship and manufacturing of handmade paper and paper artwork. The biannual print journal contains tipped-in paper samples; how cool is that?!
4. North American Hand Papermakers is a corporation that brings collectively folks considering hand papermaking, to encourage sharing of sensible, historic, and inventive data in regards to the craft.
5. Trish Witkowski is ending her common Fold of the Week collection after 15 years. What a tremendous run, and all 655 inspirational episodes (plus the ten final ones which are popping out quickly) will all the time obtainable to view.
6. Jade Quek retains tabs for us on all the pieces ebook and paper-related along with her Ebook & Paper Arts Calendar. You may join her month-to-month e-newsletter on the hyperlink.
7. The Movable Ebook Society is a nonprofit group that gives a discussion board for artists, ebook sellers, ebook producers, collectors, curators, and others to share enthusiasm and alternate details about pop-up and movable books.
8. Do you hearken to my podcast, Paper Speak? This previous 12 months, I performed 17 interviews with papermakers, paper engineers, origami artists, floor designers, ebook artists and authors.
9. Papercraft Miracles is a woman-owned small enterprise in Buffalo that creates sustainable handmade paper & stationery, handcrafted paper flowers, handbound books and plantable seed bombs.
10. The Kalamazoo Ebook Arts Heart hosts a well-liked annual Illustrated Accordion exhibition. Entries are due on January 22.

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Books/Magazines/Articles: My assortment of books about paper continues to develop, and I’ve catalogued them on Library Factor. Listed here are ten new faves, some in my assortment, some on my want listing.

1. Sample & Stream, by Mindell Dubansky, chronicles the flourishing of American adorned paper arts starting within the Nineteen Sixties and increasing to the 2000s and showcases marbled paper, paste paper, fold-and-dye papers, and extra.
2. The Artwork and Artwork Remedy of Papermaking: Materials, Strategies, and Functions, by Drew Matott and Gretchen Miller, gives a complete assortment in regards to the modern practices, media, and worth of hand papermaking as social engagement, artwork remedy, and private voice.
3. Kelsey Pike’s new ebook, Fashionable Papermaking, makes the craft comparatively straightforward and accessible since all of the important instruments and provides might be DIY’d, recycled, and thrifted. It gives all it’s essential begin making paper.
4. The heroine in The Paper Magician is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic and learns to fold animated paper creatures, amongst different issues.
5. Laura Russell’s restricted version artist’s ebook, Beautiful Warriors celebrates 26 girls battling Parkinson’s Illness. This ebook is an empowering exploration of beautiful girls! All income from this version shall be donated to a company supporting girls with PD.
6. Nationwide Ebook Award finalist Beth Kephart’s new ebook, My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera, is a memoiristic inquiry into the methods during which paper shapes and holds our lives by way of a collection of letters written to the late Dard Hunter.
8. Beatrix Mapalagama has revealed a fantastic ebook about her work on the Papierwespe in Vienna over the previous few many years. This ebook is crammed with pictures of inspirational methods of working with paper developed by Mapalagama and others.
9. Uppercase Journal launched Quantity R, Rag & Pulp, of their Encyclopedia of Inspiration collection as advised by stunning imagery and galvanizing tales and interviews.

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One-Sheet Wonders. One thing that has captivated me all through my profession is what number of methods a single sheet of paper might be remodeled! Listed here are 10 one-sheet wonders that caught my eye.

1. Uashmama’s Toge Toge Lampshades are flat sheets of their signature washable paper that velcro collectively and match completely round a normal wine glass. They arrive in enjoyable colours and are illuminated with a tea mild.
2. I’m completely entranced each time I see certainly one of David Umemoto’s designs. He sells architectural DIY templates by his firm, No-Bu-Ru.com.
3. Sho Shibuya creates work on the entrance web page of the NY Occasions – creating a visible and emotional interpretation of the information.
5. Gina Pisello shares just a few new tutorials on her weblog annually. I loved these Spiral Containers.
6. That is an attention-grabbing story about folded paper triangles.
7. João Charrua folds human faces from single sheets of paper. I like what he says about paper folding: “Origami requires rational and sequential thought, the place every fold goes to kind half the entire, they usually all have to return collectively to provide the ultimate consequence.”
8. Paula Beardell Krieg made a video tutorial for one of many initiatives in The Artwork of Papercraft – the Pleated Show Stand designed by Hedi Kyle. Paula’s bought some intelligent further ideas for the challenge and paper suggestions too. Share a photograph for those who make one!
9. Try the July/August subject of In style Mechanics, that includes an animated paper airplane.
10. Pulpatronics tackles single-use electronics with paper RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags.

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Artists / Designers /Tinkerers: I as soon as thought I’d run out of individuals to function on the weblog, however I’m satisfied that it is a unending listing. Take pleasure in these 10 and I’ll introduce you to 10 extra subsequent 12 months. 

1. Paper Life! Ocean is a collection of paper sculptures by Tina Kraus who is considering how the local weather disaster, air pollution, and the lack of biodiversity have already had a huge impact on nature and life on this planet.
2. This can be a beautiful profile of Ruma Choudhury, who runs an organization referred to as Paper Nest. By way of her in depth analysis in Birbhum in West Bengal, India, she has been capable of efficiently procure fibers from 38 pure sources that are indigenous to this district.
3. Right here’s one thing to make you smile! These monumental paper installations by Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen convey vibrant flora indoors.
4. Marieke de Hoop runs PapierLab in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She has been making and experimenting with paper for the previous 40 years utilizing conventional papermaking methods. De Hoop works with different artists and makers to create distinctive, stunning and sustainable papers and merchandise.
5. I loved this interview with Shigeru Ban on Heidi Zuckerman’s podcast, About Artwork. He constructs total buildings with cardboard.
6. Kelli Anderson began a month-to-month good mail membership this 12 months. I all the time sit up for receiving her month-to-month paper experiment, which ranges from paper contraptions to small pop-up books, magic methods, zines and artwork prints.
7. HiiH Lights makes beautiful lighting in Oregon. They bring about collectively the operate of sunshine, the craft of handmade paper, and the artwork of sculpture. Handcrafted in Astoria, Oregon, their designs are in residential and business settings, in addition to galleries all through the nation.
8. Minneapolis, Minnesota artist Liz Sexton creates sculptures that blur the road between the animal kingdom and human life. Working with paper mâché, she creates massive masks of fish, birds, and mammals that should be worn.

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Tutorials + Courses: There are limitless potentialities for what you may make from/with/of/on paper. Listed here are just some concepts.

1. Janine Vangool, editor of Uppercase Journal makes use of earth pleasant packaging to ship her magazines, however she’s gone one step additional to develop a collection of tutorials that encourage subscribers to reuse the mailers.
2. I hosted three free mini Zoom workshops this previous 12 months. Catch the replays and create your personal: 1. Faceted Map Ring 2. Crown Lantern 3. Pleated Paper Card 4. Tea Gentle Topper
3. There are a number of ebook arts facilities throughout the US that provide workshops in books arts, printing, software making, papermaking, letter arts and extra. The San Francisco Heart for the Ebook, Minnesota Heart for Ebook Arts, Heart for Ebook Arts NYC, Kalamazoo Ebook Arts Heart are just a few that come to thoughts. What have I missed?
4. Cathryn Miller created a brand new collection of papery Introduction tutorials for 2023. Right here’s the index to all 25.
5. Mariela has been generously offering origami tutorials on her YouTube channel, OrigamiManiacs, since 2011. Not solely is she instructing methods to fold superb origami buildings however she additionally invitations the masters of origami from everywhere in the world to share and train their buildings. Really useful by Jade Quek.
6. Package Davey makes playful artwork to unfold delight throughout the planet. She gives reside on-line workshops in ebook arts each couple of weeks.
7. Matthew Reinhart’s limitless enthusiasm for paper is infectious. He’s bought a great deal of tutorials over on his YouTube channel.
8. Madonna Yoder at Gathering Folds creates superb tessellations and teaches origami folders the rules behind folding, reverse engineering, and designing tessellations to allow them to fold no matter patterns they like.
9. Megumi Lorna Inouye’s upcoming ebook, The Soul of Giftwrapping comes out in April, 2024, however right here’s a sneak peak challenge – How you can Wrap a Ebook with out Tape.
10. Try these Skillshare programs by Clarissa Grandi, who performs round with geometry and combined media and teaches others this fantastically accessible artwork kind.

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Inspiring Initiatives: It’s really superb to witness the concepts that folks give you to ponder what is occurring in our world and to make it a greater place by way of paper.

1. Bruce Foster created a large (8 foot tall) pop-up ebook for the for the Christmas service at Crossroads Church. Try the 4 spreads: a winter scene, the Nativity, theThree Clever Males, and the Crown of our King of Kings.
2. This can be a nice story about an organization in India that’s offering sustainable employment to rural girls. Itsy Bitsy is a scrapbooking firm and the largest client of handmade paper within the nation.
3. How cool is that this? Since 2015, the humanities nonprofit Visible AIDS has celebrated Valentine’s Day with girls dwelling with HIV by LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN (LPW), a grassroots initiative that makes use of the vacation as a backdrop for activism and advocacy by group kinship and artistry. With the assistance of Brooklyn-based paper-making mill Dieu Donné, LPW invited artists, activists, and group members to design hand-crafted Valentine’s Day playing cards to distribute internationally to girls dwelling with HIV.
4. “Round 1,300 years in the past, a lady leant over a valuable ebook, and etched some letters into the margin, together with some cartoonish drawings. She didn’t use ink – she scratched them in, so that they have been virtually invisible to the bare eye. Till final 12 months, no-one knew they have been there…” Now, researchers are capable of “see” these etchings due to a brand new imaging know-how on the Bodleian Library, which may map the bodily texture and contours of a ebook web page, manuscript, or the floor of different historic objects akin to printing plates.
5. Who knew that mathematicians have been looking for a form that by no means repeats itself (in fact they have been)!  The man behind the invention of ‘The Einstein Tile’, David Smith, is a retired printing technician who spent loads of time at house reducing shapes out of paper and experimenting with them. The Nationwide Museum of Arithmetic in New York and the UK Arithmetic Belief in London then requested members of the general public for his or her most artistic renditions of an einstein. A few the finalists used paper! 
6. Almost 4 million origami hearts have been displayed on the advanced of the famed Angkor Archaeological Park in northwest Cambodia’s Siem Reap province to point out assist for the thirty second Southeast Asian (SEA) Video games.
7. Graveyards are more and more turning into a matter of concern for the setting. You may contribute to nature and present your duty in direction of the generations to return earlier than reaching the grave. Ecopod Coffins are constructed from 100% recycled paper.
8. I’ve no phrases for the entire (pointless) ache and struggling on this planet. We people simply hold messing up! Heather Dearman is CEO of the 7/20 Memorial Basis (her cousin Ashley was paralyzed within the Aurora, CO capturing, and Ashley’s daughter Veronica and unborn child have been killed). One of many issues the inspiration does is fold paper cranes, every with a message of affection and assist, turning them into wreaths to be despatched out to communities impacted by a mass capturing. You may take part within the Paper Crane Peace Mission.
9. This text shares the attention-grabbing historical past of paper balloons (kamifusen). They’re a specialty of Izumozaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, the place they’ve been produced for greater than 100 years.
10. Alexis Arnold’s Crystallized Books remodel novels, guides, and maps into gleaming sculptures that take into account how we worth and use objects. Arnold submerges discovered books right into a scorching bathtub of water and borax. When water boils, its molecules develop, and because the saturated water cools once more, the molecules shrink and any extra borax crystallizes. Out of the swimming pools come books coated with dense, translucent clusters that stabilize the objects as warped, crinkled mounds.

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Movies: If an image is value a thousand phrases, what does that make a video value? Listed here are 10 movies in a wide range of codecs that I feel are precious to look at.

1. David Martinez is a Venezulean programmer who’s a dreamer and paper folder  residing in Bogota, Colombia. He very generously shares his origami creations each on Instagram and YouTube. Really useful by Jade Quek.
2. The wearable paper artworks created by finalists within the Paper on Pores and skin™ competitors exhibit the unbelievable versatility of paper and the modern capability of the artists. As a particular deal with for worldwide audiences, movies have been fabricated from the entire works (and the gala parade), permitting the wearability and craftsmanship to be considered intimately. Paper on Pores and skin™ is held in Devonport, Tasmania (AUS). Really useful by Diane Britt and Lyndal Thorne.
3. Do you know I’ve a YouTube channel? I all the time prefer to say that making paper is one third arrange, one third making, and one third clear up, so this Papermaking Collection options movies in all three areas.
5. A lot of you will have seen this, nevertheless it’s all the time enjoyable to look at Papermaking on Sesame Road! Search for a well-recognized (though a lot youthful) face and hearken to the catchy tune.
6. I loved this fascinating lecture (recorded on the Cincinnati Asian Artwork Society) by Diane Maurer, artist, trainer and creator, who tells the story of her profession in instructing, demonstrating and writing books about ornamental paper.
8. Felon: An American Washi Story debuted not too long ago at Princeton. This one-person present options the poetry of Reginald Dwayne Betts and a paper kite set created by Kyoko Ibe, the artist behind a earlier rendition of Recycling: Washi Tales. The by line is Elise Thoron, the NY author and director of each items. Watch the video in regards to the challenge right here.
9. Ann Manuel is engaged on a beautiful paper set up referred to as Breath, consisting of a whole bunch of seed pods and flowers. The work was impressed by the expertise of witnessing her mom’s last breath — and her mom’s dying want to see the flowers from her backyard preserved.
10. Click on by to look at a beautiful video in regards to the Residing Seashore that Jane Kim created (with paper) for the Nationwide Aquarium in Baltimore. I like how she talks about artwork and the way it could make issues which are hard-to-see (like underwater animals) seen.

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Instruments & Provides: Right here’s an eclectic listing of instruments and provides for papermaking and paper crafts.

1. Shanna Leino manufactures a small line of hand instruments for bookbinders and craftspeople which are as stunning as they’re purposeful.
2. Want a sugeta for Japanese Papermaking? Carriage Home has you lined!
3. I like my press from Arnold Grummers – it will probably press small sheets of handmade paper in addition to books, flowers, and different small objects that want urgent.
4. I get a number of adhesives from Washi Arts: this double-sided tape,  rice starch paste in a tube and this tapioca starch glue stick.
5. Hollanders in Michigan focus on handmade papers and bookmaking provides. Really useful by Tess Corridor.
6. Talas in NYC has a beautiful and big selection of provides of handmade papers and bookmaking provides at cheap costs. Really useful by Tess Corridor.
7. Eco Enclose is an innovator in eco-friendly packaging and delivery provides, they usually have nice customer support. They provide free samples (however they ask you to pay for delivery – I feel that’s honest).
8. Colophon Ebook Arts Provide sells all the pieces you want for bookbinding, field making and marbling. I’m a giant fan of their Londonderry linen thread spools – I feel I’ve one in every colour!
9. I’m a giant fan of all types of attachments and connections. Eyelet Outlet sells all kinds of ornamental brads, that are a enjoyable approach to join sheets of paper. I buy colourful eyelets from them, too.
10. I exploit these bulldog clips to carry issues collectively as I work, particularly when creating lampshades. Their flat surfaces come in useful for clipping them to shade frames with out leaving a mark.

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Helen Hiebert Studio in Pink Cliff, Colorado. Picture by Pink Cliff Paper Retreat participant Dell Combs.

About Helen Hiebert Studio: My curiosity in how issues are made (from paper) hold me updated on present paper traits, which I write about weekly on this weblog. I additionally host the podcast Paper Speak, that includes artists and professionals who’re working within the discipline of hand papermaking and paper artwork.

Uncover my hottest papermaking and papercraft sources – together with details about instruments and provides, how-to movies, and paper ideas – multi functional place by becoming a member of The Paper Advisor (it’s FREE)! You might be additionally welcome to affix my free fb group, The Paper Studio, the place we share what we’re making with paper on Flaunt it Fridays!

I run The Paper 12 months, a web based membership program, the place we discover artistic paper methods every month in a supportive group. My different common on-line class is named Weave By way of Winter –  this course takes place every February as we discover the artwork and craft of paper weaving. I’m additionally the creator of six books about paper crafts and papermaking, and I provide an annual paper retreat and host two papermaking grasp courses in my Pink Cliff, Colorado studio every summer season and fall.

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