June 7, 2009

My dad and I visited John Babcock at his studio in the Santa Cruz mountains.  He hasn’t seen me since I was a two-month old baby.  I learned a lot of new things about paper making like the kozo pulp and how to use a bamboo mesh screen.  Also I learned about special machine that paper-makers use to make pulp called a Hollander beater.  They’re kind of like bath-tub shaped blenders.

I showed John samples of paper I’d made – he thought I’d done a great job and hoped I’d take one of his workshops in paper-making.