Deckle boxing is one of the oldest forms of papermaking, used in places like Nepal, India, and Tibet. In this style, paper pulp is poured into a high-walled mould and deckle floating in a shallow container of water allowing the pulp to be suspended so unique designs can be created.

Multiple colours can be combined to make individual decorative sheets allowing for plenty of experimentation like including various different coloured pulp and fibres and the addition of found materials as part of the final sheet. Final sheets are like paintings, each unique from the other.

Deckle boxing is a wonderful technique for making unique book covers or cards, and can be used as a starting point for drawings and paintings.

Saturday, February 8th, 2025

1 day class, 5 hours each, 11am - 4pm

Instructor: Flora Shum

Price includes all materials.

Level: Beginner, no experience required.

Artist-Instructor Bio

Flora Shum is a Hong Kong born-Tkaronto/Toronto based artist, educator, and cultural worker. Her artistic practice is experimental and collaborative by nature, with roots in papermaking, printmaking, and book arts, extending to found objects, sculpture, video, and installation. Her art utilizes these mediums to explore alternative histories and archives, alchemy, multiples and multiplicity, and slow labour.

She co-directs Paperhouse Studio (c.2013), where she carries forward the vision for paper as a medium, and leads arts-based programming for underserved communities. She is one half of duo collective—AURA, and Artistic Director of CARFAC Ontario, the association of visual and media artists in Ontario.

Flora has facilitation experience at OCAD University, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto Public Library, University of Toronto, Central Technical School (Toronto, ON.), Peter Pitseolak School (Kinngait, NU.) and Attagoyuk Ilisavik (Pangnirtung, NU.). She has exhibited locally and internationally, including Toronto (ON), Whistler (BC), Hong Kong, and New York (NY).

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