The Sunday Paper #552
April 27, 2025
I’m again from my journey to the Amalfi Coast. My daughter is a superb touring companion and navigated us to the entire sizzling spots (Positano, Amalfi and Capri). We walked 5-10 miles a day (up and down many steps – it was 76 steps as much as our Airbnb), marveled within the blues of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the roads that traversed lemon-filled hillsides, and ate a number of seafood, pizza, pasta, pastries and gelato!
We visited the Amatruda Papermill, which has a protracted, steady historical past within the city of Amalfi (up the principle street, previous the throngs of vacationers). Giuseppe Amatruda gave us a fast tour of the papermaking services, the place they produce cotton fiber stationery merchandise which might be distributed worldwide. This gentle field (beneath left) caught my eye within the showroom. I used to be delighted to see a number of the forefathers of papermaking in watermarks: T’sai Lun, Louis-Nicolas Robert; Henry Fourdrinier, Andreas Kufferath, and the mill at Amalfi. The drawing (beneath proper) hangs on a wall within the showroom. I like the way it exhibits the entire steps within the papermaking course of.
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I had the pleasure of talking with James Ojascastro on Paper Speak, an origamist, papermaker, and botanist, with a Ph.D. in ethnobotany at Washington College in St. Louis in collaboration with the Missouri Botanical Backyard. Ojascastro employs a mix of strategies – together with fiber trait measurements, experimental papermaking, species distribution modeling, and semistructured interviews – to discover the historical past, biogeography, and conservation of papermaking traditions (particularly of Nepal and Vietnam) by a botanical lens. Outdoors of academia, Ojascastro makes use of his analysis background to information and inform what vegetation and which processes will yield paper appropriate for origami artwork. Get pleasure from our dialog!
James Ojascastro in Suối Cỏ, Hòa Bình Vietnam, the place he was studying papermaking utilizing dướng (paper mulberry; Broussonetia papyrifera) with papermakers belonging to the Mường ethnic group.
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Should you’re native, I hope you’ll come out for a enjoyable group crafting occasion at The Bookworm this Thursday, Might 1st, at 5:30pm. We’ll be folding Swirling Flowers, simply in time for Mom’s Day! We’re making these in The Paper Yr this month, too.
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This can be a fascinating video a few quiet nook of Spain, the place a manufacturing facility fuses centuries-old paper equipment with cutting-edge know-how to supply a number of the world’s most well-known rolling papers. The true-life Willy Wonka behind it, Josh Kesselman, tells the story. Watch to the top to listen to the reflections on spending a day on the manufacturing facility by a member of the movie crew.
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I discussed this set up a few weeks in the past right here on the weblog: Folding the Future is an beautiful suspended set up of paper stars that’s now on view on the Galleria in Dallas (by September). Take a look at this information clip about Paper For Water’s superb work.
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Paper Tidbits
- Should you’re in NYC, The Magic of Marbling: The Artwork of Karli Frigge presents alternatives from the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork Watson Library’s assortment of her work together with her pattern books, recipe books, instruction guides, and workbooks.
- There’s one spot left in my Taos Paper Retreat. We’ll be weaving paper in the course of the week of July twenty first within the land of enchantment. Click on right here to learn all about it and be a part of us!
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Writer’s Nook
With my new guide popping out in November, I assumed I’d spend the months main as much as publication sharing a bit concerning the technique of bringing a guide to life. Be happy to ship me your questions, and I’ll attempt to tackle them right here.
Immediately, I’ll inform you a bit concerning the modifying course of, which we’re simply wrapping up. I submitted my manuscript to Storey Publishing in June of 2024, together with some photographs and reference supplies, and was assigned to my challenge editor, Kristen Hewitt. The manuscript goes by a collection of edits first – when the editor is especially wanting on the textual content solely, and I get to evaluation and reply to the edits at every stage. Subsequent, the writer flew me out to their places of work in North Adams, MA for a photograph shoot in October. We shot the entire step-by-step photographs for the initiatives within the guide. Storey was capable of {photograph} the precise challenge examples, in addition to the weavings of the 60+ visitor artists, on their very own. For instance of the extent of element require for every section within the course of, I spent about 10 hours on the cellphone with my editor one week, getting ready for that photograph shoot. Design started shortly thereafter, and someday within the late fall I obtained “1st Pages” – a PDF and coloration copies of the guide format. I had plenty of feedback at that stage! We went by two extra rounds, and I’m submitting my remaining feedback on third pages tomorrow. Phew! I’m just about completed with the manufacturing facet of this challenge. Promotion of the guide will start quickly.
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