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My mum had an art & craft shop. She decided to close it & sold off all the stock. There was a load of paper left so I've grabbed it. Huge sheets of watercolour paper with loads of sizing, mulberry papers, tissue paper, kami, handmade papers and plain old coloured A4. Plus a few cans of spray glue and some good sharp craft knives.

Some of this stuff will fold really well, some of it's going to be useless but I shall have fun trying. I feel like the kid in the sweet shop at the moment.

I have just inherited a paper collection and I am an extremely happy camper.

that's the way an origamist can be satisfied
I'm a bit jealous, but I'm really happy with you that you got it.
have fun

I'm still waiting for the truck with free origamido paper to come to my house

I just heard that my copy of Lang's "Origami Design Secrets" has arrived, so I'm rather happy too. But not as happy as you must be, lucky bastard

What is watercolour paper?

What is watercolour paper?

a special paper to draw onto with watercolours.
it's excellent to wet-fold 3dimensional models (like with elefantenhaut)

Harlequin, you're in my kind of heaven. What sort of handmade papers?

Incidently, a friend gave me a coffee mug a few years back with the caption "The one who dies with the most paper wins." I think you've got the title, now.

cybermystic wrote:Harlequin, you're in my kind of heaven. What sort of handmade papers?

I haven't got a clue! A load came off a stand from the "meridian import company". There's some thick, some thin with a variety of patterns & textures. Some of the stuff with pressed skeleton leaves and petals pressed into the paper would look wonderful on a really simple traditional model but I don't hold out a lot of hope for the paper keeping it's integrity. It's wierd stuff - like multi-layered blotting paper with bits in it.

Absolutely! The more ornate paper will look great on the simple, traditional models. The flower paper, I would use to make a vase with a clay-folding technique. If you don't crease it too hard, the thickness of the paper will add stability.

hahahahahaha.... I know what u mean! I recently worked part time at an uncles printing shop... I just kept folding with all the paper! He said i was putting it into good use!