Playing with Colour in Papermaking
Playing with Colour in Papermaking
Playing with Colour in Papermaking, (previously “Deckle Box Papermaking”), is a class that uses pour mould papermaking to play with different coloured pulps. 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. Please read the full description below.
Date: Saturday, November 29th, 2025
This is a masks required class.
Playing with Colour in Papermaking, (previously “Deckle Box Papermaking”), is a class that uses pour mould papermaking to play with different coloured pulps. 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.
Pour mould papermaking, or 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, November 29th, 2025
1 day class, 5 hours each, 11am - 4pm
Instructor: Flora Shum
Price includes all materials.
Level: Beginner, no experience required.
This is a masks required class.
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).
