Artisanal Paper Elaboration
Cooking methods
A course by Juan Barbé , Paper Engineer
About the video: Cooking methods
Overview
“The cooking can be done with soda, sodium carbonate or lime. In this case, we will use soda as an alkali to eliminate lignin. Every hour we will see if the vegetable softens and releases easily. Once the plant is cooked it is advisable to leave it in its water until it cools, so you can finish cooking a harder part if there is one. ”
In this video lesson Juan Barbé addresses the topic: Cooking methods, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artisanal Paper Elaboration. Learn to create handmade paper using plant fibers.
Partial transcription of the video
“We have here the enea, that has been soaked for twelve hours. We are going to cook to eliminate the lignin, that we already commented that it was a kind of natural cement, that covers the fibers and that prevents from being touch each other Therefore, prevents us from making paper. With this cooking Let's eliminate the lignin. To do this, let's light ... the fire. Fire, as you can see, the fuel is butane gas. The pot is made of stainless steel. I told you not to use aluminum pots, because the aluminum reacts with the soda, and we're going to cook it with soda. It is considered that for ever...”
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Course summary for: Artisanal Paper Elaboration
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Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, DIY, Fine Arts
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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