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Handmade Paper from Plant Fiber

All of my paper is handmade from plant fiber. The plants are all wild plants of the prairie region found in Kansas. It's an involved process to take these plants and turn them into paper, but the results are incredibly unique and beatiful. All of my paper is made from Kansas plants and made in Topeka, Kansas by myself. Learn more about the paper.

Learn Papermaking from Plants

Every year I teach a workshop on making paper from native plant fiber. You'll be amazed how you can take milkweeds, grasses, and other plants and turn them into paper. Learn more about the papermaking workshop.

Handmade Paper Uses

Various Papers made from plants

This sheet of paper is made entirely of common milkweed seed fiber.

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How the paper is made

  1. Gather the plant material
  2. Strip the bark if necessary
  3. Cut the plant material into pieces
  4. Cooked in an alkali solution.
  5. Rinse the fiber repeatedly
  6. Beat to create the pulp
  7. Add pulp to vat of water
  8. Pull each sheet of paper
  9. Press out excess water
  10. Dry in a press