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Introduction to Making Paper from Plants
- Gin Petty
November 16 (Sunday)
9 AM – 4 PM (one hour break for lunch)
Teaching and materials fee - $75
Location –
Broadway Center, 204 N Broadway, Berea - Workshop Room
Signup limited to 10 participants
No previous experience necessary
Did you know many of the common plants
that grow around us will make lovely and useful paper? Siberian
iris, daylily leaves, even corn shucks can be used to make stunning
sheets for writing or decorating craft projects. Gin Petty's motto
is: "Don't compost. Make paper!" Papermaking from plants is a
multi-step process. This workshop is just a very basic
introduction to that process. Gin will share information about which
plants can be used to make paper and explain the various methods
used to break the plants down into papermaking pulp. During the remainder
of the workshop, participants will be allowed to pull as many sheets
of paper as they like from ten to twelve different prepared plant
material pulps, each of which yields its own unique colored and textured
paper. (A vat of Thoroughbred horse dung pulp will be available for
the more adventuresome.) Participants will take the sheets of wet
paper home to dry. Instruction will be given on easy methods to do
this. Any pulps remaining at the end of the session will be divided
among the participants to take home.
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www.ginpetty.com
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Gin Petty is a self-taught artist
who began carving wood at age six when her father taught her
to sharpen a knife. For over 25 years she earned her living
carving spoons and functional kitchenware as the ‘Whistlin'
Whittler.’ She is also accomplished in basketry and
papermaking. Bookbinding came about, she says, quite naturally
as a way to use that paper. "My interest lies more with
playing with the bindings than in producing the books
themselves. No matter what the field, my interest has always
been more about the process than the finished product." Recently Gin Petty's papermaking was featured in an installment of Kentucky
Life.
Video:
www.ket.org/kentuckylife/1400s/kylife1402.html
Gin Petty is a juried member of the
Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen. She regularly
demonstrates bookbinding, basketry and papermaking at the Kentucky Artisan Center
in Berea.
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