672995 event 1708024314 1708024313 <![CDATA[Papermaking Workshop: Backyard Fibers]]> We are excited to have Barbara "Scout" Ery, the Executive Director of Paper Circle coming from Ohio to lead a backyard fibers papermaking workshop with us. Participants will learn about processing foraged fibers: from collection, to cooking, and beating of the fibers. Participants will have the opportunity to make many sheets of their own paper from yucca and abaca fibers. Join us for this workshop and learn to make paper from plants that grown in your own yard!

For over 20 years, Paper Circle in Nelsonville, Ohio, has operated under the mission to preserve, advance, and celebrate the paper and book arts. 

]]> We are excited to have Barbara “Scout ”Ery, the Executive Director of Paper Circle coming from Ohio to lead a backyard fibers paper making workshop with us. Participants will learn about processing foraged fibers: from collection, to cooking, and beating of the fibers. Participants will have the opportunity to make sheets of their own paper from yucca and abaca fibers. Join us for this workshop and learn to make paper from plants that grow in your own yard!

 

]]> 673102 image <![CDATA[RCW Paper fiber]]> Paper samples made from abaca and plants that can be collected nearby. Raw fibers from a shrub are piled on top of the finished sheets of paper.

]]> 256458 image/jpeg Anna Doll

Anna.Doll@rbi.gatech.edu

404-894-7840

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