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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 entriesFolding & 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 entriesPaper Arts & Crafts
What hands make from a sheet — papercutting traditions, quilling, papier-mâché and decoupage, pop-ups, collage, and cardmaking.
13 entriesBooks & 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.
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