A modern maker’s guide to decorative paper-led traditions from around the world, this book is guaranteed to expand your crafting horizons. Paper Crafts: A Maker’s Guide contains fifteen beautiful step-by-step projects, each one taking its cue from a different tradition or technique, including origami, quilling, silhouette-cutting and fan-making, as well as contemporary paper sculpture and the art of paper-making itself. Designed by teachers and practitioners at the leading edge of today’s craft revival, the projects are functional, accessible and fashionable, and include tips on how to take the next steps towards developing your own designs.

This inspiring book will give you the skill and confidence to express your passion for the handmade through the age-old crafts of cutting, sticking, folding and forming paper.

Edition type: First edition
Extent: 176 pp
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2018-08-16
Size: 26.5 x 20.5 cm
ISBN: 9780500294185

Introduction: Paper crafts today • Tools & materials • Basic techniques • Folding: Introduction; Paper fan; Origami • Cutting: Papercutting; Wycinanki; Silhouettes; Peepshows • Sticking: Quilling; Découpage; Paper modelling • Forming: Paper making; Stitched paper; Papier mâché; Paper flowers; Paper weaving • About the makers

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