Tuesday, May 19, 2009

ship building


One afternoon last week I spent making some paper boats with a couple of friends for a fundraising event in Scotland ( http://www.joannebkaarpaperboats.blogspot.com/ ). I might make a couple more before mailing them off... Mine were made from banana fibre paper I bought in Yogjakarta, a bohdi leaf, and also some paper with a tjap of a wayang kulit (traditional Indonesian puppet). I knew all that practise paper with wax stamps on would come in useful one day... I covered one of my boats with hot wax - this boat is seriously heavy! There's a few months to go before the deadline and if I get time I'll make a boat with fibres from the garden - I have a long list of experiments to do!

1 comment:

Joanne B Kaar said...

Hi!
Your paper boats are now in dry dock, in my studio!
You can see them on the paperboat blog!!

Thanks for taking the time to make them for us.
www.joannebkaarpaperboats.blogspot.com