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Paper for so much more than origami
Author: Kat Powers | March 18, 2008Comments:
You see lotus flowers in red, pink and black, silkscreened on handmade Kozo paper. I see a beautiful way to enhance the still-beautiful desk that has a scratched table top.
And maybe I can help the kitchen cabinets too.
The Paper Source has fabulous, handmade papers that run 25 1/2″ x 19″ and are under 
$10 each. I like the Katazome Strawberry Red Flowers pattern you can buy for $8 a sheet, but you can get Japanese prints with geometric patterns, patterns with bunnies or dragonflies or even black roses.
The papers are very strong, so they withstand mistakes made with glue and folding, and are really nice for book covers or wrapping really important presents — like the one you give your future mother-in-law to thank her for being in your wedding.
What’s left over from covering my battered desktop I can use to make cranes for a mobile I want to catch a breeze. I think the strawberry-colored birds might entice spring to come back faster.
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