PAPERFROST

PaperFrost

Learn

A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Paper & Materials

Know your stock — how paper is made and measured, grammage and pound weights, paper sizes, and the fibres and finishes that make one sheet behave differently from another.

13 entries

Folding & Origami

The art of the fold — the crane and the classic bases, modular and geometric forms, wet-folding and crease patterns, and the masters and mathematics behind them.

12 entries

Paper Arts & Crafts

What hands make from a sheet — papercutting traditions, quilling, papier-mâché and decoupage, pop-ups, collage, and cardmaking.

13 entries

Books & Binding

From loose pages to a bound book — the codex and the scroll, sewn signatures and marbled endpapers, illuminated manuscripts, and the crafts of the bindery.

13 entries