Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Craft your own colorful paper goods and personalized stationary. With clear, step-by-step instructions, Helen Heibert covers all aspects of the papermaking process - from growing and harvesting plants for a malleable paper pulp to embellishment techniques like dyeing, embossing, and laminating. With tips on building your own papermaking equipment, ideas for transforming junk mail into dazzlingly unique notecards, and much more, you'll be inspired...

Learn how to cultivate, harvest and prepare all-natural materials for embellishing handmade papers. Provides over 50 recipes for creating papers using fresh and pressed flowers, petals, seeds, leaves, ferns, grasses, herbs, and more. Includes special directions for scented potpourri papers.

Information about the history of paper and its uses accompanies instructions for making different types of papers and objects such as flowers, trays, lanterns, and more from paper.

Papers made from fruit and vegetable fibers are truly unique, with intriguing textures, colors, and variations. In The Gourmet Paper Maker, veteran paper artist, Ellaraine Lockie, details a revolutionary yet simple technique for creating original handmade papers out of banana peels, asparagus ends, melon rinds, and more. Visual directory of over 100 paper recipes. Easy to follow directions are environmentally friendly - no harsh chemicals. Embellishing...

Information about the history of paper and how it has been used around the world accompanies directions for activities that include making different types of papers and objects such as flowers, trays, lanterns, and more from paper.