Author: terrywells

Advance notice and a call for papers. We have booked the Farringdon Room at St.Bride Foundation for our popular Spring Meeting. Please note this is a Tuesday not our usual Wednesday.

Short summaries of the articles in the latest Quarterly.

The 2025 AGM agenda and nomination form along with the Chairman’s Report are available to download here.

Our Conference this year is to be held in Exeter. For more information on speakers, visits and costs please click here.

Paper Mills and Paper Makers in Fire Insurance Policies

Details of Mills and Makers extracted from Royal Exchange and Sun Fire Policy Books. More details.

A summary of the articles in the latest Quarterly

We have booked the Farringdon Room at St.Bride Foundation for our popular Spring Meeting. When the late Alan Crocker was Chairman he started the Spring Meeting as an opportunity for members to present topics that might be of interest to the rest of the membership. These topics can be short or long talks, videos, demonstrations or anything that is linked in some way, however tenuous, to paper.

Details of speakers and payment methods.

An online event hosted by The Wallpaper History Society on the evening of 12 February 2025.

Further details and link to booking form.

Eleanor Burkett is a paper and textile artist initially trained in Fine Art Textiles at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Ellie’s interest in handmade paper took her to Fukushima, Northern Japan and Tokyo where she studied Japanese paper techniques and textile processes for several years. 

Migiwa Matsutani is going to Fukushima – Kamikawasaki – to help strip kozo bark for 10 days or so. This will greatly encourage the one papermaking family left. Eleanor is doing a studio sale to support this venture – details of the artworks for sale.

Two volume set of “Paper Mills” extracted from the Simmons Collection of records relating to British windmills and watermills now reduced to £25.