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An illustratwed report about how students at Higham Hall College learned to make paper from recycled cloth, NOvember 2012
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Paper from Cloth
Course: Papermaking for Textile Designers
Tutor : Jonathan Korejko
J.Korejko © 2013 T: 01526 378222 E: [email protected] W: www.timberlandand.co.uk page 1 of 7
This new papermaking course was launched on the weekend of 23-25 November
2012 at Higham Hall College in the Lake District. It was all about rags ! I prepared
a variety of pulps in my studio for the students to use in the making of their cloth
based papers. This included the recycling of bed sheets, a bath towel, redundant
blue jeans, and linen from a mill in Northern Ireland. The students enhanced these
base pulps by chopping up a variety of coloured cotton threads, jute twine, silk,
and cotton cloth to produce an enormous array of different colours and textures.
Many of the pieces produced included complete bits of cloth and thread, too. The
resultant papers went far beyond the ordinary, becoming works of art which
combined liquid cloth with solid textiles. Some of the paper was finished in its own
right, others will be worked on by the students at home as they use their “ rag
papers” for embroidery, construction and bookbinding projects.
Colourful cotton threads made
many different hues of paper.
Various cotton embroidery
threads were liquidised in a
blender, turning the material into
raw fibre. The white cotton base
pulp was prepared in a Hollander
beater. When mixed together,
these fibres made tints of red,
blue, yellow, green and orange
“liquid cloth". We also prepared
threads to decorate our denim
pulp, and added linen thread into
the linen papers.
J.Korejko © 2013 T: 01526 378222 E: [email protected] W: www.timberlandand.co.uk page 2 of 7
J.Korejko © 2013 T: 01526 378222 E: [email protected] W: www.timberlandand.co.uk page 3 of 7
Denim pulp was used to embed strips of purple
cotton twill which was criss-crossed on the wet
base layer.
The purple strips were
captured by the top
layer of denim, pressed,
and dried.
J.Korejko © 2013 T: 01526 378222 E: [email protected] W: www.timberlandand.co.uk page 4 of 7
Couch...
embed...
...release
thread.
Gradually
building
a piece of
paper using
liquid cloth
to capture...
…thread and
material, to
make a new
piece of textile.
J.Korejko © 2013 T: 01526 378222 E: [email protected] W: www.timberlandand.co.uk page 5 of 7
Denim pulp,
embedded
strips of silk,
crossed with
cotton thread.
The cloth
based paper
begins to turn
into a hybrid
piece of fabric.
J.Korejko © 2013 T: 01526 378222 E: [email protected] W: www.timberlandand.co.uk page 6 of 7
People who were involved in other courses during the weekend at Higham
Hall visited us in the studio on Sunday morning. It’s very rewarding as
a tutor to watch a student confidently talk to visitors about the various
processes which they have recently learned.
J.Korejko © 2013 T: 01526 378222 E: [email protected] W: www.timberlandand.co.uk page 7 of 7
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