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The paper making process with Ghanaian pulp mulberry involves harvesting the raw material, scraping off the outer bark and discarding the soft wood to leave the inner bark; cooking the inner bark to soften it, rinsing the cooked fiber with clean water, beating the fiber, forming sheets at the vat, pressing these sheets to remove excess water, and drying. To make paper from textile waste we gather the cloth scraps, sort them into colors, cut them and beat them in our Hollander beater to make pulp. All the color in our paper comes from either the natural plant colors or the dyed textile scraps.  

You are invited! 

Indigo dying handmade papers - a commission for 150 academic folders for a conference for the University of Wisconsin African Studies Program.
Part of the August 2019 papermaking team. Dedicated, committed, hard working and fun loving — such great collaborators! @henree.jr1
Details: 1. Ghanaian Pulp Mulberry with textile waste 2. Ghanaian Pulp Mulberry
Workshop moments yesterday.
Our beautiful fiber: cooked, cleaned and ready to be beaten. Ghanaian Pulp Mulberry!
Production
Cutting textile waste for beating into paper pulp. All the color we get in our sheets comes from cotton textile scrap pulp (cotton pulp is then mixed with the pulp mulberry fiber, giving the sheets strength).
Henry pulling sheets today. Pulp-mulberry and cotton rag textile waste.
200 pounds of recently harvested raw pulp mulberry fiber collected in preparation of upcoming work with the Boakye Family Adinkra workshop.
Production, July 2018
Envelopes made from Ghanaian Pulp Mulberry and cotton textile waste.
Master Adinkra printer Peter Boakye, experimenting with traditional stamps and ink on Ghanaian handmade paper.
Henry Obeng, Production Manager Intern, July 2018