Since getting back to Beijing from Yunnan I have been working on a woodcut in cherry wood depiciting how to make Dongba paper. When it was finished, I printed the image onto the Dongba paper that I had made in the village of WuMu under the guidance of the Dongba masters. The woodcut shows a [...]
Yesterday we had our second workshop which focussed on papermaking. Specifically I wanted to pass on what I had learnt about Dongba paper in the village of WuMu. On my last day in Yunnan I had harvested some of the special plant that the Naxi use to make their Dongba paper. The latin name for [...]
Time to harvest the Chinese Indigo at Little Donkey farm. Some friends joined us for the harvest, helping us pick the leaves and collect flowers that had gone to seed so that we can save the seeds for next season. This plant is Polygonum Tinctorium, also known as Chinese Indigo, also known as Japanese Indigo [...]
