Midcentury paper bits for papermaking - 8 oz | 228 g

Unearthed from New England barns and antique broken books, these delicate fragments of real midcentury art history books are lovingly recycled into texture-rich bits for your creative soulwork.

Shredded into dreamy confetti in our Texture Apothecary studio, each bundle contains thousands of paper flecks.

Papermaking: Add to your pulp blend for authentic texture and romantic specks of vintage script.

Art Batts: Blend into fiber layers to add organic contrast, surprise, and subtle structure.

Weaving & Felting: Trap fragments under tulle for ghostly textile effects.

Mixed Media & Journals: Collage, stitch, or glue into spreads, tags, or shadow boxes.

Directions for making mixed media art batts:

• Card a batt on your drum carder and remove from carder. 
• Unroll batt and lay flat on a clean surface.
• Spray top side of batt lightly with hairspray batt adhesive.
• Sprinkle mixed media onto batt. Use as much or little as you prefer. Based on my aesthetic preferences, 1 oz will embellish 3-6 batts. 
• Wait for adhesive to dry (about 45 seconds).
• Fold batt in half lengthwise to encapsulate the mixed media within the fiber, and corespin or coreless corespun to enclose the media within the fiber.
• Collect mixed media that falls out when spinning and reattach to yarn by spraying yarn with adhesive and sprinkling mixed media onto sprayed areas.
• Ply with thread to soft set, if desired.
• Do not soak.

Mixed media yarns are intended to be used for non-wearables. I enjoy carding these textures into art batts and spinning them into mixed media yarns, but they're also fun for paper making and decoupage!