Favorite paper clothes

Unknown artist

Edward Maeder

Unknown Artist

Robert Ryan

Susan Stockwell

Jackie Abrams

Jackie Abrams has been one of my favorite paper basket artists for a long time. She makes her baskets out of heavy watercolor paper which she paints herself. She has been making baskets sine 1975.





-JENN

Studio C'ai Lun

Dennis Yuen has been making books since he was a little kid. Yuen practices coptic, long stitch, stab, pamphlet and flat-back binding. Although he usually offers a new variation to these traditional techniques. I absolutely love his journals! My favorite is the gold one. He sells them through greenjeans and occasionally through his etsy store.





Here are even more pictures of his journals.

-JENN

Video by Jen Stark

Really cool video by Jen Stark, sort of like a dynamic representation of one of her sculptures.

Love it!

Foldschool

Foldschool provides D.I.Y. cardboard furniture kits for kids! You can download the patterns right from your computer. I love the philosophy behind the product:

"Mass culture is run by superficiality and ecological absurdity. Foldschool supports craftsmanship as a face-to-face approach to design and brings together product and user the closest possible.
The mindset of foldschool is to restore design to one of its original missions: to provide a product at an affordable price through a smart manufacturing process."

Great idea! I really appreciate their mission.





-JENN

Happy Valentine's day!

Some cute cut-paper valentines from www.katespade.info

Letterpress printing

Cool video about letterpress printing...

-camille

Jill Sylvia

Jill Sylvia (on whom I cannot find more information...) cuts the cells out of ledger paper, making the paper into delicate lace. After hand-cutting the cells out of the grid, she uses the cells by gluing them down to a bigger piece of paper.

Hot Printing!

This wintersession I had an awesome time TA-ing for Elana Wetzner's Hot Printing class! Everyone made really beautiful things. Today was the last day, and here are the student's results:


Come see the show!! Feb 21 - Mar 6



Class shot (with Elana- front far right)





Elana's goodies





-JENN

Ingrid Siliakus

Ingrid Siliakus makes amazing abstract, pop up, fold out, paper architure! She has studied paper architecture for a long time and has been creating these intrcate sculptures since the '80s. For me, it looks like pop-up book meets Gaudi. I've always admired paper architecture artists, but most of it has a similar style. Ingrid offers a new interpretation of the art, and I love it!



-JENN

Jen Stark

Jen Stark makes beautiful paper sculptures! She went to France to study for a semester and bought the cheapest thing she could find- construction paper- and began to experiment with it. There are up to 80 layers in a single sculpture! She cuts each layer one by one using an X-acto and then she assembles the pieces.




My favorite is the leaf cut. She was inspired by the idea of a leaf turning into a skeleton over time. So intricate!



-JENN

Launch!

Hello! Welcome to papermode, the beginning of paper fashion! Papermode is a Rhode Island-based company available for stationary and design services and we also sell hand-crafted items like embroidered boxes, paper jewelry, and handmade journals. Check out our etsy store! Papermode has big dreams but will start with a blog and an etsy account for now. Our blog will consist manily of paper-related projects and inspirations. Please check back often, we will be updating frequently!

Thank you for checking us out!
-Camille and Jenn