I made simple kozo sheets while on retreat in August 2012--cooked on Khandroling with pond water and soda ash, then hand beaten outside on a picnic table, made with a small Lee McDonald mould and deckle and then pressed in an antique book press before air drying. I called the results "Plein Air." I wake up early, so each morning I walked from Rinpoche's cabin where I was doing retreat down to the beaver pond where a silky little lady met me on her morning swim. After breakfast at the camp kitchen over looking the pond, I liked to beat the kozo a few minutes every day.
That's us on the left -- a real plain jane paper.
This year I was able to offer some of our experimental calligraphy paper made with Kozo, Ping Tang, and linen beaten in the hollander beater with sacred substances and recycled texts from Tibet. The wet papers were pressed in our antique iron bookpress then restraint dried for several days. The results are good but we are still in the experimental stage.
For the 2013 Swatch Swap, here is our recipe:
Khandroling Paper Cooperative
Calligraphy Paper Recipe
Kozo and Ping Tang beaten for
thirty minutes in Mark Lander’s Critter with added inclusions of sacred
substances from Tibet and recycled Tibetan texts and prayer flags. Previously beaten linen was
added. Sheets made with a custom-made mould and deckle approximately 23” L x 6”
W, the size for traditional doorway mantras. Each sample stamped with our KPC
chop.
The two end sheets are fiber left-overs one of a kind or failed pulp painting but, nonetheless, robust for a cover!
Now cooking Kozo for our Festival of the Hills papermaking this Sunday.
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