Helen Hiebert Boeken

What can you do with banana and milkweed, cornhusks and pineapple, wheat straw and mulberry?  Make a deranged fruit salad?  A chapeau for Carmen Miranda?  No!  You can make your own unique hand crafted paper from natural materials with this complete how-to guide.                 With the step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs in Papermaking with Plants , you’ll learn how to: ·         Collect and harvest plant fibers from stalks, barks, leaves, and grasses ·         Process, press, dry and finish your paper using both Eastern and Western methods. ·         Embellish your paper with natural dyes and decorative materials like flower petals and pine needles ·         Craft one-of-a-kind projects such as vegetable papyrus, multipaper collages, and shaped papers including envelopes, lampshades, specialty books, and covers.  

Written by a paper making expert, this work contains illustrated instructions to blend and shape a variety of organic papers from such common plants as hosta, milkweed, and thistledown, as well as the more unusual pineapple, yucca, and seaweed. It also covers embellishing techniques such as adding flower petals, creating collages, and dyeing.

Featuring a high-end gallery of artists, whose beautiful work will inspire you to make your own amazing paper art, Playing with Pop-Ups will teach you to create interactive pieces that everyone will enjoy.

Papermaker and artist Helen Hiebert offers step-by-step techniques for 40 one- of-a-kind paper arts projects, from simple to elegant, each made from just one sheet of paper.

Create glowing, three-dimensional home furnishings with handmade paper. Helen Hiebert shows you how to use paper to craft textured lampshades, patterned window treatments, and stenciled room dividers that gently diffuse light and fill your home with a stylish warmth. Discover techniques to make your paper more interesting, including piercing, layering, and crayon batiking. With easy-to-follow instructions and full-color photographs of 15 stunning projects, you’ll be inspired to explore the endlessly exciting possibilities of mixing paper and light. 

This inspiring guide covers everything about paper, with 20 fun-filled projects, extraordinary artist profiles, and more.

Papier in dreidimensionale Objekte zu verwandeln und Bewegung in die Buchseiten zu bringen - das ist die Welt der Pop-up-Konstruktion. Die Grundtechniken - schneiden, rillen, falten und kleben - sind einfach zu erlernen und werden Schritt für Schritt erklärt. Anschließend gilt es, selbst aktiv zu werden: Schnittvorlagen zu zahlreichen Pop-up-Projekten verschiedener Künstlerinnen und Künstler erleichtern hier den Einstieg, während ambitionierte Pop-up-Fans Inspirationen zu kreativen Papierspielereien im Galerieteil finden.