Artisanal Paper Elaboration
Washed
A course by Juan Barbé , Paper Engineer
About the video: Washed
Overview
“The cooking water contains lignin and alkali residues that we must totally eliminate to obtain clean fibers to make the paper.”
In this video lesson Juan Barbé addresses the topic: Washed, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artisanal Paper Elaboration. Learn to create handmade paper using plant fibers.
Partial transcription of the video
“Well, we are already in the laundry room. The laundry is just a mesh, in this case plastic, backwards with high walls, such that we we are going to pour the line with the liquid, the broth resulting from cooking, to clean the black liquors and the remains of lime. This is essential to then do a sheet of paper, since they should not be incorporated to the leaf neither alkali remains nor lignin remains. Let's go there. Look at the color of the lignin. Here we have... the enea already finished cooking. Behold. It is impregnated with black liquors. This is what we have to eliminate with washing...”
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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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