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Handmade card and envelope
Paper, handprinted with water-based ink
5 x 4 inches
2011
$4 |
Kelsey is a recent graduate from the Kansas City Art Institute. She majored in Art History,
minored in Printmaking and also focused on teaching. In her Junior year, she took a
papermaking class and quickly became fascinated with the medium. She then continued to study
the ancient craft, learning and practicing for hours.
"While anyone can make a sheet of paper," she says,
"becoming a papermaker takes, mostly, a desire. Papermakers spend hours every
day dripping water into their boots, toting around five-gallon buckets of pulp, scrubbing
pigments from under their nails or listening to the roar of a Hollander beater for hours." Kelsey
likes the feeling of peeling off freshly dried sheets and seeing stacks of paper grow. She uses her
handmade paper to create useful products like cards and books, and sells blank sheets for other
creative individuals to enjoy.
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Handmade hardcover books with all handmade paper, front
and back pockets, two ribbon
bookmarks and an elastic strap.
Paper and bookbinding
6 x 4 inches
2011
$25 |
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Handmade recycled paper made with aqueous-dispersed
pigments (20 sheets)
14 x 11 inches
2011
$34 |
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