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“All Blues” is the theme of the fortieth-anniversary issue of Hand Papermaking magazine, vol. 41, no. 1 (Summer 2026). In it we explore the whys and hows of making and using blue handmade paper, historically and in our present time. Featured on the front cover is May Babcock and Lindsey Beal, Lamina: Undertow #1, 2016–2018, 11 x 8.5 inches, cyanotype on artist-made paper from pigmented cotton and cornhusk with gouache. Collection of RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island. Courtesy of the artists.
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In the current issue of Hand Papermaking magazine, Tim Barrett gives us his take on Aimee Lee’s new book, As Good as Our Tools, which celebrates eighteen artisans who make the tools, “so the rest of us could make paper.” In the book Lee cautions the field that we are fast losing our pioneer papermaking toolmakers, and sadly, we are mourning the recent passing of Howard Clark, pictured here, in his shop in 1983. Photo: Todd Matus.

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To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Hand Papermaking magazine and her twenty years as its editor, Mina Takahashi contributes a blue paper sample for the “All Blues” issue. Pictured here is a full 22 x 30-inch sheet of ultramarine-pigmented paper, “corrupted” with vinegar. A sample of this sheet is included in the current issue.

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“In a deep-indigo night sky ominous clouds gather bringing lightning and thunder,” begins Murad Khan Mumtaz in an essay on his artwork Moon when the Cherries Turn Black for the current “All Blues” issue of Hand Papermaking magazine. This gorgeous work is painted in natural pigments on indigo-dyed handmade vasli paper made by Hussain Kagzi in Sanganer, Rajasthan, India. Here, we show a detail of the night sky pictured in the 131/8 x 17¾-inch work. Courtesy of the artist.

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In the current “All Blues” issue of Hand Papermaking magazine, Don Farnsworth and Max Thill describe their pursuit to recreate Renaissance-era blue handmade paper, cherished by artists like Federico Barocci and Leonardo da Vinci. At Magnolia Paper Studio, for the past ten years, Don and Max have explored numerous ways to color rags and pulp for papermaking, and went so far as to commission the production of heritage wool felts to achieve the hair-marked surface of sixteenth-century blue handmade papers. Their own artwork on the blue papers they made are a testament to their decade-long quest for the perfect drawing paper. Here, Max Thill is forming sheets of indigo-blue linen paper at Magnolia Paper Studio, Oakland, California.

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In the current “All Blues” issue of Hand Papermaking magazine, artist and poet emet ezell shares the history of blue paper in seventeenth-century mystical Jewish texts and how they resurrected the practice in an art project to reclaim an abducted synagogue in Latvia. Part of the art installation was their moving work, Map to Disappeared, 2024, 70 x 50 centimeters (27.6 x 19.7 inches), ink on blue handmade paper.

Photo: Ben Monks. Courtesy of the artist.
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