Artisanal Paper Elaboration
Fiber milkshake
A course by Juan Barbé , Paper Engineer
Learn to create handmade paper using plant fibers
- English, Spanish
- 99% positive reviews (305)
- 5955 students
About the video: Fiber milkshake
Overview
“With the shake what we are going to do is to individualize the cellulose fibers. After cooking the vegetable retains the same structure as before cooking, but are no longer bound by lignin. For defibering or shake we can use wooden mallets, a blender or blender or both.”
In this video lesson Juan Barbé addresses the topic: Fiber milkshake, 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 finished washing, we have eliminated the lignins and the remains of alkali. Let's drain a little the herbs. We carefully collect all the remains. And, now, let's cut to favor the shake. We have split of two hundred grams of raw material, that is, of enea. If we now take this and weigh it again, would give us a weight about 100 grams. This is normal. It is normal for the cooking to take half the weight of the raw material in the form of, above all, the lignin and other materials of the plant . If we had for example the tone of a cereal, this intermediate operation for the shake we wo...”
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Course summary for: Artisanal Paper Elaboration
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, DIY, Fine Arts
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.
- 99% positive reviews (305)
- 5955 students
- 13 lessons (50m)
- 3 additional resources (0 files)
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- Audio: English, Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
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