Paste paper

Over at Slamseys, the Creative Summer Challenge is in full swing. The aim of the challenge is to have fun, perhaps involving children over the school holidays or just making some time for yourself …

Learn all about Paste Paper. Barb shows you what it is, how to mix it up, how to use stencils and layers of paste-paint and what to do with finished papers.

There are already a lot of great paste paper tutorials out there, but I’ve always wanted to write one. Teaching bookbinding at the University of Utah last semester was a good excuse to finall…

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Barb Owen invites you to her studio to play with paste, paint, paper, stencils, texturing tools and more. Learn how to finish and create with paste papers.

Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley, a handsomely designed and printed little volume, is a history of fine printing and binding in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, with special focus on decorated and paste papers and nineteen printers. Illustrated with full-page reproductions of nineteen paste papers with short biographies of their makers—”many of whom are the unsung hero-binders of books from fine press publishers such as Gehenna Press, Pennyroyal Press, Cheloniid

Though I don’t make paste paper all the time, when I do it is a big, messy, blissful event. So let’s share the bliss. Here’s how to make it: Supplies Paper Don’t use printer…

Paste Papers are papers which have been painted with a cooked and colored flour and water mixture. There are many ways to use these papers, but I most often use them as decorative covers for books.…

10 Tips for Acrylic Painting features techniques for mixing colors, creating backgrounds and splatter effects, and making decorative paste paper.