Hand-made decorated paper collection

The last week has been very hard to concentrate and feel motivated or inspired to work due to the latest world news. I'm sure it was the same for a lot of people.
Yesterday, though, I decided to leave and take the LGNE invitations to go to Sidney Berger's extensive collection of decorated papers, books and tools on papermaking, collected over the past 40 years. He has thousands and thousands of paper stored in drawers, thousands of books and amazing ephemera. I felt so lucky to spend a few hours viewing such a collection with a small group of the guild members at Sidney 's house. The all experience was very impressive and I left with my mind full of memories from the time marbled paper and hand-made books were taking all of my time and attention. I decided to donate some of my old sheets of marbled paper to the collection and to post a few pictures taken during the viewing. Below, stunning marbled paper alchemy by Karli Frigge and on the top left, an original sample of Japanese stencil, used for Chirogami paper. I took more photos, but the light was so poor indoor and I don't have any other good ones to show.


Below, some samples of my oil colors marbled papers and stationery. With nostalgia, I'm thinking of the time I was intensively marbling paper with oil colors from 1990 to 1997 and cut and fold envelopes by hand. I better pull some sheets out of my archive.....