Cotton and Birchbark Paper ROCKS

Paper Parade, a photo by bbartteacher on Flickr.

this amazing paper started with some ratty birchbark peeling off of the river birch in my front yard. Cooked on Saturday morning and plopped in a vat of cotton on Monday. Gorgeous.

look at the amazing illuminated papers we made tonight. I love to look in the window at the studio with these blocks of color and texture "blocking" the view.

I harvested day lily and cooked it this weekend. The result is the brown paper. The green paper on the right has poppy seed and dill to create the color shift and texture.