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On the Web
- Tear It Up - Sells papermaking products, papermaking supplies, and offers general information on recycled papermaking.
- The Papermaker's Apprentice - This site is devoted to the ancient craft of hand papermaking. It includes photographic tutorials, examples of my paper art and a tour of papermaking sites.
- Stefan's Florilegium: Papermaking - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme of papermaking.
- Papermaking for Kids - This Baltimore County Public Library site is aimed at teaching the craft of papermaking to children.
- Papermaking with Hawaiian Plants - An article on handmade papermaking using Hawaiian native plants.
- Papermaking - The following procedures given are simplified versions of traditional methods. Once basic papermaking is understood, one can make many beautiful papers using plant materials and flowers.
- Papermakers Guild of Western Australia - Information about the Guild, papermaking and paper crafts in general.
- Tear It Up - Sells papermaking products, papermaking supplies, and offers general information on recycled papermaking.
- Papermakers of Victoria Inc. - The purpose of the group is to provide mutual support for hand papermakers through the exchange of ideas and information, discussion and demonstration.
- Hand Papermaking, Inc. - Non-profit organization promoting the art of hand papermaking.
Wikipedia Articles
- Papermaking - Papermaking is the process of making paper, a material which is ubiquitous today for writing and packaging. Though the word "paper" derives from the Egyptian use of papyrus.
- Dard Hunter - Dard Hunter, born William Joseph Hunter (November 29, 1883 – February 20, 1966), was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking—especially by hand, using the tools and craft of four centuries prior. Hunter produced two hundred copies of his book Old Papermaking, preparing every aspect of the book himself: he wrote the text, designed and cast the type, did the typesetting, handmade the paper, and printed and bound the book.
- Living National Treasure (Japan) - Living National Treasure ([Ningen Kokuhō) is a title awarded in Japan] to certain masters of crafts such as [[woodblock printing (ukiyo-e), papermaking, swordsmithing and pottery, and to masters of performance traditions such as bunraku, kabuki, and various matsuri (festival) performance traditions, with the aim of preserving skills and techniques in danger of being lost.
- Deckle - A Deckle is used in (manual) papermaking, along with a mold, to gather up woodpulp from a vat for pressing and drying into sheets.
- Central National-Gottesman - Central National-Gottesman, Inc. is a diversified corporation that began as a supplier of raw materials for papermaking.