papermaking workshop

Wendy has a workshop for us this afternoon in the papermaking studio & we try our hand at papermaking. wear pants and shoes that can get wet, and short sleeves she says. i manage not to get wet but see the need for her knee high rubber boots and rubber smock.

many of us attend, and there is a party-like atmosphere among the group down in the studio. perhaps it is the wonderment of tilting pulp in a frame and then pulling ("cooching") the pulp from the frame onto large wet felt in a quick, smooth body-rocking movement.

yes, we are making paper!