Weaving with Paper: 30 Projects to Expand Your Creativity with Inventive Techniques, Intriguing Prompts, and Inspiring Works of Art
Paper artist Helen Hiebert shares unique paper weaving projects with step-by-step instructions and inspirational prompts for developing a daily practice.

Combining fiber art and paper craft techniques, paper weaving is accessible, sustainable, and fun. Each project in the book includes a prompt, a technique, step-by-step instructions with photographs, and examples that will inspire readers to repurpose, recycle, and reuse papers they may already have, like maps, postcards, holiday cards, or journals. And, because it does not require specialized equipment like a loom, paper weaving really is for everyone.

Prompts and thoughtful questions are designed to help readers find their own creative path. Inspiring profiles and stories run throughout the book, highlighting a range of contemporary paper weaving artists.
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Weaving with Paper: 30 Projects to Expand Your Creativity with Inventive Techniques, Intriguing Prompts, and Inspiring Works of Art
Paper artist Helen Hiebert shares unique paper weaving projects with step-by-step instructions and inspirational prompts for developing a daily practice.

Combining fiber art and paper craft techniques, paper weaving is accessible, sustainable, and fun. Each project in the book includes a prompt, a technique, step-by-step instructions with photographs, and examples that will inspire readers to repurpose, recycle, and reuse papers they may already have, like maps, postcards, holiday cards, or journals. And, because it does not require specialized equipment like a loom, paper weaving really is for everyone.

Prompts and thoughtful questions are designed to help readers find their own creative path. Inspiring profiles and stories run throughout the book, highlighting a range of contemporary paper weaving artists.
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Weaving with Paper: 30 Projects to Expand Your Creativity with Inventive Techniques, Intriguing Prompts, and Inspiring Works of Art

Weaving with Paper: 30 Projects to Expand Your Creativity with Inventive Techniques, Intriguing Prompts, and Inspiring Works of Art

by Helen Hiebert
Weaving with Paper: 30 Projects to Expand Your Creativity with Inventive Techniques, Intriguing Prompts, and Inspiring Works of Art

Weaving with Paper: 30 Projects to Expand Your Creativity with Inventive Techniques, Intriguing Prompts, and Inspiring Works of Art

by Helen Hiebert

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Overview

Paper artist Helen Hiebert shares unique paper weaving projects with step-by-step instructions and inspirational prompts for developing a daily practice.

Combining fiber art and paper craft techniques, paper weaving is accessible, sustainable, and fun. Each project in the book includes a prompt, a technique, step-by-step instructions with photographs, and examples that will inspire readers to repurpose, recycle, and reuse papers they may already have, like maps, postcards, holiday cards, or journals. And, because it does not require specialized equipment like a loom, paper weaving really is for everyone.

Prompts and thoughtful questions are designed to help readers find their own creative path. Inspiring profiles and stories run throughout the book, highlighting a range of contemporary paper weaving artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781635867961
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 12/16/2025
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Helen Hiebert is a papermaker, artist, and author of books on papermaking and paper crafts, including The Art of Papercraft, Papermaker’s Companion, and Papermaking with Garden Plants and Common Weeds. She teaches papermaking classes and workshops, writes a weekly blog, and is the host and producer of the podcast Paper Talk, which features interviews with papermakers and paper artists. Hiebert's blog, The Sunday Paper, is a resource for ideas and inspiration via stories and examples of people doing exciting, innovative, and beautiful things with paper. She lives in Colorado.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Exploring the Origins
Early Cloth Weaving
Early Paper Weaving
Basket Weaving
Paper Weaving in School
Modern Weaving

Chapter 2: Tools & Materials
Paper (Of Course!)
Other Materials
Tools
Other Useful Items

Chapter 3: Learning the Basics & Developing Your Design Eye
Fundamentals of Paper Weaving
Developing Your Design Eye

Chapter 4: Establishing a Daily Practice 
Cultivating Flow
12 Benefits of a Daily Practice
A History of Daily Challenges
The Intermittent Daily Practice

Chapter 5: Your Paper Weaving Journey
Things to Consider as You Embark on Your Journey

The Prompts
Recycle: Straight to the Point 
Roots: Home Sweet Home
Joy: Explore the Edge
World: Global Vision
Nature: The Great Outdoors
Travel: Dream Vacation
Landscape: What a View!
Random: Simply by Chance
Contrast: Worlds Collide, in a Good Way
Perspective: Fading Away
Routine: Daily Delight
Window: Looking Out
Direction: Any Way You Like It
Circle: Circle in a Square
Concentric: Inside Out
Ephemera: Those Were the Days
Silhouette: Standing Out
Highlight: Center Stage
Symbol: What Do You Stand For?
Winding: Around & Around
Crossing: Back to the Strip
Treasure: Hidden Gems
Waves: That's Very Fluttering
Light: All Will Be Revealed
Layer: What's Under There?
Variety: A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That
Modular: The Sum Is Greater Than the Parts
Breathe: Give Me Some Space
Angle: What's Your Angle
Puzzle: One Step at a Time

Chapter 6: Weaving Projects to Showcase Your Work
Woven Note Card
Reverse Piano Hinge Album
Woven Paper Lantern

Chapter 7: Gallery
Hollie Chastain
Galen Gibson-Cornell
Naomi J. Kendall
Carole Kunstadt
Dorothy McGuinness
Rhiannon "Skye" Tafoya
Julie VonDerVellen
Therese Zemlin

Glossary
Metric Conversion Chart
Resources
Suggested Reading
Image List
Contributing Artists
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author 

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