The Paper Decorator

Inspiring and innovative, this book opens up a whole new realm of decorative possibilities by showing how the versatility of a beautiful natural material can be used to fashion papercraft creations for every room in the house. Step-by-step demonstrations include hands-on paper projects for fresh wall treatments (collage wall, wallpaper, mosaic dado, wall hanging, wall lights), furniture (coffee table, chair, storage unit, chest of drawers, kitchen nook), accessories (mirror, fireplace screen, headboard, bowl, pot, lampshade), and other objects. Instructions are given for papermaking, sheet forming, papier-mch, layering, pulps, casting, laminating, stretching, dyeing, painting, waxing, bleaching, stenciling, stamping, gilding, collage, and decoupage.