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Wild Plant Paper

Contact name: Bryan Collis
20
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over 7 years
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Maker's bio

I am a papermaker who loves to share his passion and know how. Trained as a botanist, I love to use different plants to make paper and create unique things.

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Make paper from wild and garden plants
6 hours
Next date: 24th Apr 2025
12 places left

Recent reviews

All maker's reviews
3 Apr 25'

Alison Haworth reviewed: Make paper from wild and garden plants

"An interesting day with Brian learning all about plant paper. He is full of information and knowledge. A great learning experience."

2 Apr 25'

Anna reviewed: Make paper from wild and garden plants

"Bryan was an amazing teacher. I’ve learnt so much about paper making, using both recycled paper and natural plant materials. We gathered some materials from the land, then made beautiful golden paper from straw, and lush green paper from giant sedge. Bryan kindly provided dried leaf and flower decorations. He is very knowledgable, answering all my questions about how I might be able to make paper stone age style, and summit farm is a really lovely communal venue. I would recommend this course to anyone interested in making paper in a way that is aligned with nature, and it was well worth my trip from Brighton to do :). Looking forward to making my comic out of natural inks and paper! "

26 Jan 25'

Gilly reviewed: Make paper from autumn leaves

"This was a nice thing to do but you need to wrap up as it was mainly outside and cold in the room. There wasn’t quite enough to do so we finished early. Maybe Brian could have prepared a few more different materials as we only used leaves ( worked well) and bracken which he hadn’t tried before and which didn’t work so well. He’s obviously very knowledgeable and we enjoyed the day!"

Wild Plant Paper responded:

"Thanks Gilly for your review. Sorry for the miscommunication, there was some other material we could have used, I got the feeling people had done all that they wanted to! Lesson learned, I will check I have understood what people are feeling next time. All the best Bryan "

23 Jan 25'

Daniel reviewed: Make paper from wild and garden plants

"Today I joined the Wild Plant Paper full day session. I learned so much that I will be putting into practice immediately, I came home with a wonderful selection of paper that I made, and was given both the basic information and deeper science about making paper. The tutor was very knowledgable and friendly, and encouraged us all to try out new thingds. Would recommend to all budding artists, journal makers, scrap bookers, or those have a load of scrap paper they want to repurpose."

Wild Plant Paper responded:

"Glad you enjoyed the day!"