Sustainability of Making Paper by Hand
Channel: Papel Texano
Date: 2016-10-21

Presentation given by Yama Ploskonka during the 2016 Friends of Dard Hunter Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was the opening presentation for a conference dedicated to sustainability in papermaking.

Maestro Profesor Yamandu Ploskonka y Rivas, DSLL, a letterpress and block printer since age nine, couldn't find quality, affordable, large, medieval laid paper, to print reproductions of antique estampes and other block prints.
So he decided to make his own.
Then Yama discovered that making good paper is not just the most difficult craft that that he has ever tried, but also something  immensely satisfying and fun in its own right.
As he is convinced that a main feature of fun is to share it, he also started Papel Texano, the non-profit collective for handmade paper craft and art in Austin Texas. There, home-built, innovative equipment empowers the goal of making sustainable, quality hand made paper and paper art, where knowledge and honest work meet each other.