Paper Magpie: About

About Paper Magpie:

Sometimes it's just easier to learn a new technique if you can see how it's done. Starting with an easy to follow papermaking guide, Paper Magpie hopes to introduce as many people as possible to the totally boss world of paper craft.

If you make paper with our guide, let me know! It seriously makes my day.

About Our Papermaking Guide:

Many folks learn best through seeing. A lot of crafting and artistic techniques are difficult to explain with only words, which is frustrating when you just want to figure out how to do something.

In late September, 2005, I made a photo tutorial on Flickr about the process of making paper. It was made knowing that most households don't have a separate studio area, let alone more than couple square feet of space to work in. Nor does everyone have the luxury of buying nice materials, or using media that isn't food safe.

Then, about a year after making the tutorial, Craft: and MAKE: linked to it.

From there, the tutorial got a nice chunk of attention and was linked to by Lifehacker and About.com. This was exciting, because I am absolutely in love with making paper and this was getting other people into making paper too.

With Paper Magpie, I just want to disseminate information on craft and art techniques. I want to take away the pretension associated with craft and art and just get folks as totally into paper craft as I am. That is why I made this guide, based on the original photo tutorial--which is still available for all sorts of free on Flickr.

This papermaking guide goes a little more in-depth than the original tutorial and the images are cleaner. You can print it out and have it right there to reference while you work . Each page has a wider margin on the left-hand side so you can three-hole punch it if you want. This guide is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. So feel free to share, but please tell people where you got this guide from.

Buying the PDF of this guide just helps me work on more--using inclusions, laminating, additives, casting, making and using a proper mold and deckle--all the fun things that are possible with paper. Or you could donate, if you felt so inclined.

Rock the papermaking!
—B. Zedan


About Paper Magpie: Sometimes it's just easier to learn a new technique if you can see how it's done. Starting with an easy to follow papermaking guide, Paper Magpie hopes to introduce as many people as possible to the totally boss world of paper craft. If you make paper with our guide, let me know! It seriously makes my day. About Our Papermaking Guide: Many folks learn best through seeing. A lot of crafting and artistic techniques are difficult to explain with only words, which is frustrating when you just want to figure out how to do something. In late September, 2005, I made a photo tutorial on Flickr about the process of making paper. It was made knowing that most households don't have a separate studio area, let alone more than couple square feet of space to work in. Nor does everyone have the luxury of buying nice materials, or using media that isn't food safe. Then, about a year after making the tutorial, Craft: and MAKE: linked to it. From there, the tutorial got a nice chunk of attention and was linked to by Lifehacker and About.com. This was exciting, because I am absolutely in love with making paper and this was getting other people into making paper too. With Paper Magpie, I just want to disseminate information on craft and art techniques. I want to take away the pretension associated with craft and art and just get folks as totally into paper craft as I am. That is why I made this guide, based on the original photo tutorial--which is still available for all sorts of free on Flickr. This papermaking guide goes a little more in-depth than the original tutorial and the images are cleaner. You can print it out and have it right there to reference while you work . Each page has a wider margin on the left-hand side so you can three-hole punch it if you want. This guide is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. So feel free to share, but please tell people where you got this guide from. Buying the PDF of this guide just helps me work on more--using inclusions, laminating, additives, casting, making and using a proper mold and deckle--all the fun things that are possible with paper. Or you could donate, if you felt so inclined. Rock the papermaking! —B. Zedan