Paper - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 29618 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 170.04 MUSACEAE Musa textilis | Entry Book Number | 7.1985.1 | |
| Artefact Name | Paper | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United States | TDWG Region | United States | ||
| Parts Held | Paper | Geography Description | Massachusetts, Northeastern USA, Northern America | ||
| Uses | PaperUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Koretsky E (Mrs) | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 08/03/1985 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: The art of papermaking was developed by the Chinese in the first century. The theory and general techniques are still the same, both for handmade paper and fine commercial paper. In our studio, we make paper from plant materials - banana, n, asturtium, begonia, iris, agave, papyrus. First the stalks of the plants are washed; then cut into small pieces and cooked in a caustic solution. After another washing, the plant material is beaten to a pulp, then mixed with a large quanity of water. Fina, lly, each sheet of paper is individually formed on a screen. properly termed 'mould' then pressed and dried. Elaine & Donna Koretsky Carriage House Handmade Paper Works. 8 Evans Road, Brookline, Massachusetts 02146 USAx0Dx0Ax0Dx0APreviously part of Plants + Peop, le exhibition in Museum no.1 1997- Spring 2016 | ||||