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Natural Materials & Recycled Paper Making Workshop

$125.00

Price: $125 per person
Experience length: 3 hours

Create your own hand-made paper using a blend of natural materials and recycled fibres, guided by artists who work with land‑based practices. In this workshop, participants learn how to turn “waste” into something beautiful and useful, while paying attention to how the land can show up in the texture, colour, and feel of each sheet.

Price: $125 per person
Experience length: 3 hours

Create your own hand-made paper using a blend of natural materials and recycled fibres, guided by artists who work with land‑based practices. In this workshop, participants learn how to turn “waste” into something beautiful and useful, while paying attention to how the land can show up in the texture, colour, and feel of each sheet.

What You’ll Experience

  • Introduction to natural and recycled paper-making materials

  • Discussion of responsible material use, waste reduction, and circular practices

  • Demonstration of pulp-making, mould and deckle use, and sheet formation

  • Hands-on time to make your own sheets of paper using a variety of fibres, inclusions (seeds, petals, grasses, threads), and textures

  • Space to experiment, play, and notice how different materials change the paper

You’ll leave with a selection of your own handmade sheets (dry or drying, depending on conditions) and a basic understanding of how to repeat the process at home.

Typical Timeline / Flow (3 hours)

Welcome & Introduction

  • Arrival and brief land acknowledgement

  • Overview of the workshop, materials, and safety considerations

Materials & Pulp-Making

  • Talk through natural materials, recycled fibres, and how we source responsibly

  • Demonstration of tearing, soaking, and blending fibres into pulp

  • Participants help prepare different pulps

Sheet Formation & Experimentation

  • Demonstration of mould and deckle use, couching, and layering

  • Participants create their own sheets, experimenting with thickness, texture, and plant inclusions

  • Ongoing guidance and troubleshooting from the facilitator(s)

Pressing, Drying & Reflection

  • Demonstration of pressing and setting sheets to dry

  • Group reflection on process, what worked, and what surprised you

  • Tips for continuing paper-making with simple tools at home

Who This Is For

  • Artists and makers interested in sustainable, land-connected materials

  • People who enjoy hands-on, process-based workshops

  • Educators looking for eco-conscious art activities to adapt for classrooms or community programs

  • Anyone curious about how discarded paper, plants, and fibres can be transformed into something new

What to Bring

  • Clothes you don’t mind getting a bit splashed (aprons if you have them)

  • Personal water bottle

  • Any small dried petals, threads, paper, or flat natural materials you’d like to experiment with (optional)

All core materials and tools are provided. You bring your curiosity, and we’ll explore how land, fibre, and water come together in each sheet of paper.