The second volume of Papermaker’s Tears, which I edited, contains these essays:
• Sidney E. Berger • The Many Faces of Decorated Paper
• Velma Bolyard • Falling into Shifu: A Journey, a Story
• Andrew R. Davis, Timothy Barrett, Fenella G. France • Fermentation as a Pulping Method for Handmade Papers and the Permanence of Finished Sheets
• Katharine L. DeLamater • Carriage House Paper, 1974 to the Present
• Nicole Donnelly • Douglass Morse Howell: Breaking the Mould. Part II
• Aimee Lee • The Toolmakers – Those Who Build So We Can Make. Part II: Ronald Macdonald and Howard Clark
• Minah Song • Patterns of Appreciation: Papermakers in East Asia
• Nicholas G. Yeager • Without a Trace: Joseph Seavy and the Mystery of The Writer's Assistant
Published by The Legacy Press
Available from Oak Knoll Books
My essay on Japanese Natural Dyes and the Yoshioka studio appears in Paper and Colour: Dyes and Dyeing around the World
edited by Radha Pandey. With samples by Mary Hark, Tran Hong Nhung, Tatiana Ginsberg, Radha Pandey, Asao Shimura, Catherine Liu. Lisa Miles, Catherine Nash / Alison Leggat, Genevieve Lapp, Julie McLaughlin, Velma Bolyard. Susan J. Byrd. And essays by:
Mary Hark, Peter Boakye • Adinkra-Stamped Handmade Paper in Ntonso, Ghana
Nicholas Cladis • Uchigumo: A Choreography of Clouds
Tran Hong Nhung • Dó Paper: Breathing New Life into an Art Form Endangered by Extinction
Tatiana Ginsberg • People Were Remarkably Elegant in Those Days
Radha Pandey • Adding Colour
Asao Shimura • Kon’nyaku-e 蒟蒻繪
Susan J. Bryd • Interview with Sadako Sakurai
Catherine Liu • Xié and Yìn: The Intersections of Printing and Natural Dyes
Published by The Legacy Press
Available from Oak Knoll Books
Volume 1 of Papermaker’s Tears contains these essays:
• Cathleen A. Baker • The Wove Paper in John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757): Made on a Cloth-Covered Laid Mould
• Nicole Donnelly • Douglass Morse Howell: Breaking the Mould. Part I
• Susan Gosin • Founding of Dieu Donné
• Kyoko Ibe • On Gampi
• Aimee Lee • The Toolmakers – Those Who Build So We Can Make. Part I: Timothy Moore and David Reina
• Radha Pandey • Traditional Papermaking in India: Then and Now
• Peter Thomas • An Account of My Trip to Find the Hand Paper Mills of Eastern Europe
Published by The Legacy Press
Yuko Doi and worked on the translation for Washi: The Soul of Japan—Fine Japanese Paper in the Second Millennium. This twelve volume set contains over 1,000 paper samples, as well as essays by the leading Japanese experts in the field. A labor of love for all involved, it’s truly a once in a lifetime collection.
Ordering information is here.