Artisanal Paper Elaboration
Final recommendations
A course by Juan Barbé , Paper Engineer
About the video: Final recommendations
Overview
“I always say that "the path of paper has no shortcuts". It is advisable to be scrupulous in each of the steps of the process, all are essential to make a quality sheet of paper.”
In this video lesson Juan Barbé addresses the topic: Final recommendations, 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 seen how paper can be made processing plants, but the papermaker also has another set of resources that can be interesting. For example, the industry processes high quality pulps, as for example, are cotton, linen, hemp, abaca ... This is cotton. Then they come like this, as if they were leaves, and the only thing we have to do with these pulps is to put them in water, beat them and we have them ready to make paper, that is, all that process that we have seen cooking, etcetera, is already done industrially. The advantage is that we have a large availability to make papers, for examp...”
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Course summary for: Artisanal Paper Elaboration
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Areas
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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