Andrea Peterson, 2019. 

In this book, professional hand papermaker Andrea Peterson shares her decades of experience in making paper from natural fibers. Learn techniques to select, gather, cook, and beat a variety of natural fibers into pulp suitable for making quality paper, as well as how to form and dry your sheets. The book also features a small jack press diagram and real samples of her handmade paper.  

34 pages. Softcover book measures 6x9 inches. For international orders, please contact me by email. 

Andrea Peterson is an internationally exhibiting artist and educator. She lives and creates work in northwest Indiana at Hook Pottery Paper, a studio and gallery co-owned with her husband. She combines paper arts, printmaking and book arts to make works that address human relationship to the environment. She teaches and lectures extensively: San Francisco Center for the Book, School of the Art Institute – Chicago, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH, University of Georgia, Cortona, Italy, Penland School of Crafts, Krasl Art Center, St Joseph, MI. She is a 2014/15 recipient of an IAC grant. Her work can be found in many private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.