Creative Bookbinding.

Pauline Johnson.

Creative Bookbinding.

Seattle:

University of Washington Press,

1963

Johnson’s chapter on decorated paper provides instructions for twenty-three techniques including potato printing, as seen here. Others include crayon resist, wax resist, marbling, eraser prints, linoleum prints, innertube prints, cardboard prints, paraffin prints, sponge prints, stick prints, gadget prints, brayer prints, string prints, stencil prints, silk-screen prints, cutout shapes, torn paper, three-dimensional appliqués, painted papers, fold-and-dye, ink-and-fold, and paste or starch papers.

Private collection