Artisanal Paper Elaboration
Pressing and drying
A course by Juan Barbé , Paper Engineer
About the video: Pressing and drying
Overview
“Pressing is the most effective way to eliminate water from the leaf. After pressing we will hang the leaves until their final drying.”
In this video lesson Juan Barbé addresses the topic: Pressing 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
“Now we are going to press the sheets, for which, the sheet set, cloth and stabilizer, we are going to wall them between two boards. Pressing is the most effective way to remove water from the paper, and also, we get a bond very intimate between the fibers, with which we do make the paper more flexible. Let's go there. This is a hydraulic press, which is what I use to make paper, but it is not essential to use a hydraulic press. Hydraulic presses are expensive. They are great, but they are very expensive. So I stop the workshops, to make small papers, I perfectly use a hydraulic jack, and it...”
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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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