Artisanal Paper Elaboration
Fiber location, collection, storage and drying
A course by Juan Barbé , Paper Engineer
About the video: Fiber location, collection, storage and drying
Overview
“Cellulose fiber is present throughout the vegetable; but we are not going to use the whole plant to make paper, we must know where to find the highest quality fiber and in greater concentration: - The trees and shrubs are going to give us Liberian fibers. These fibers are between the woody part and the outermost bark of the plant, which we see. These vegetables must be harvested while the sap is in the plant, that is, in spring and summer. - The herbaceous plants (the whole family of grasses) give us stem fiber. Many of these plants are annual, therefore, we will harvest them at the end of their life cycle: once the plant has dried on the ground. - Plants that have large leaves, such as agaves, bananas, palms, yuccas, formio, etc., give us leaf fiber. Also many of these vegetables are annual. In other cases, as in the agaves, we can extract the fiber using combs with steel spikes and brushing the leaf we will extract fiber. - Finally, we have a small group of plants that give us fruit fibers, such as cotton and coconut. Once the plant is harvested, we will hang it in a dry and ventilated place until it is finally dried. The plant will carry a reference with its name and date of collection. ”
In this video lesson Juan Barbé addresses the topic: Fiber location, collection, storage and drying, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artisanal Paper Elaboration. Learn to create handmade paper using plant fibers.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this part, I will explain how to collect the fiber of the plant, from which place we have to extract it, how to store it and how to dry it. Usually, the whole plant, even if it has cellulose, does not use all of it to make paper, in such a way that we have to know of what plants and in what places of those plants has to be cellulose fiber, which is what interests us. Whenever we face a few trees or bushes, the fibers that interest us to make the paper are the bast fibers. They are fibers that are between the wood of the trees and the outermost part, which is what we see from the bark. Th...”
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Course summary for: Artisanal Paper Elaboration
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Juan Barbé
A course by Juan Barbé
Juan Barbé is a paper craftsman who has dedicated his career to preserving the artisanship of traditional papermaking methods. There's undoubtedly an air of mystery surrounding this ancient and obscure art form. With so few professionals in the industry today, Juan had to teach himself all the tricks of the trade.
He founded Eskulan studio in 1983, and since then, he has led a number of workshops all over the world in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes, teaching at La Facultad de Bellas Artes in Damascus, the Jordan National Museum in Amman, and in Tangier. He collaborated with La Fundación ArtSur in Nicaragua for several years, helping to optimize a workshop specialized in banana-fiber papermaking in Malacatoya and opening another workshop in Granada. He also took his talents to Mexico, collaborating at La Ceiba Gráfica and in Oaxaca.
In 2017, he published his own book, Las plantas y su papel: 102 recetas papeleras, detailing a variety of papermaking methods.
He continues to teach courses and lead workshops all over Spain, working with artists both locally and abroad, and he travels all over America and Asia every chance he gets, visiting different papermaking organizations and getting to know the local artisans and their workshops.
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