Helen Hiebert – författare

Make exquisite papers right in your own kitchen. With a few pieces of basic equipment and a small harvest of backyard weeds, you can easily create stunningly original handcrafted papers. Helen Heibert’s illustrated step-by-step instructions show you how easy it is to blend and shape a variety of organic fibers into professional stationery, specialty books, and personalized gifts. You’ll soon be creatively integrating plant stalks, bark, flower petals, pine needles, and more to add unique colors and textures to your paper creations.

Paper Weaving Journey is for readers of all levels, whether they are an experienced crafter or just beginning. Readers are guided through thirty projects and techniques with a special focus on developing a daily practice. Each reader's journey will be unique and personal, responding to prompts and thoughtful questions designed to help them find their own creative path. Inspiring profiles and stories run throughout the book, highlighting the daily practices and weavings of students from Hiebert's Weave Through Winter course as well as contemporary paper weaving artists. The book will focus on creating personal meaning and emphasize the benefits of a daily creative practice. Each of the thirty projects will include a prompt, a technique, step-by-step instruction, and an example of the project. Inspirational quotes and meditations will run throughout. The book will also highlight repurposing, recycling, and reusing papers that people might already have, like maps, postcards, holiday cards, or journals. Paper Weaving Journey combines fiber arts and paper craft, two art forms that continue to gain in popularity. Weaving with paper is accessible, it does not require specialized equipment like a loom. Paper artist Helen Hiebert shares 30 unique paper weaving projects with step-by-step instruction and inspirational prompts for developing a daily practice.Combing fiber art and paper craft techniques, paper weaving is accessible, sustainable, and fun. Each of the 30 projects in the book includes a prompt, a technique, step-by-step instruction, and examples of the project, and will inspire readers to repurpose, recycle, and reuse papers they may already have, like maps, postcards, holiday cards, or journals. And, because it does not require specialized equipment like a loom, paper weaving really is for everyone.Prompts and thoughtful questions are designed to help readers find their own creative path. Inspiring profiles and stories run throughout the book, highlighting a range of contemporary paper weaving artists.

Craft your own colorful paper goods and personalized stationary. With clear, step-by-step instructions, Helen Heibert covers all aspects of the papermaking process — from growing and harvesting plants for a malleable paper pulp to embellishment techniques like dyeing, embossing, and laminating. With tips on building your own papermaking equipment, ideas for transforming junk mail into dazzlingly unique notecards, and much more, you’ll be inspired to let your creativity shine as you explore the endless possibilities of handcrafted papers.