As I wrote here, this past June I attended the Focus on Book Arts conference and took Aimee Lee’s class “Paper like leather, Bark like thread: Korean Paper Techniques.” One of the techniques was joomchi, or paper felting. While time consuming, it was much simplier than, say, needle felting, and didn’t result in pricked fingers.
By adding water to hanji (Korean-made paper), you can adhere 2 pieces of paper together, just by patting and pounding on them. That’s what I’m doing in the photo above. Western paper would fall apart with this technique, but hanji is a very long fiber paper and holds together, even when soaking wet. Below are the results from some of my classmates.
Small squares of blue hanji have been adhered to white hanji.
Bark lace (made from kozo, see my post here) adhered to black hanji.
Below, tiny pieces of colored hanji (almost lint) have been adhered to a large parent sheet of hanji. The result was cut down into very long strips and then knitted.
