At a glance
- Category
- Holistic Healthcare
- How it's listed
- Found in our own research. Its site was confirmed live and serving the military community on . That is a check that it exists, not a judgement that it is good.
- Website
- www.combatpaper.org
About Combat Paper
Published by Combat Paper on their own website. Quoted here in full as they wrote it.
ABOUT COMBAT PAPER, WORKSHOPS & PROCESS
COMBAT PAPER® transforms military uniforms into handmade paper. We believe in this simple yet enduring premise that the plant fiber in rags can be transformed into paper. A uniform worn through military service carries with it stories and experiences that are in the woven threads. Creating paper and artwork from these fibers carries these same qualities. We have found that all of us are connected to the military. When these connections are discovered and shared it can open a deeper understanding between people and expand our collective beliefs about military service and war.
From the outset we have hosted open and ongoing workshops that facilitate the papermaking process and welcome the use of personal material for papermaking. The exchange between veterans and civilians is integral in our practice. A forum with its foundations in a collaborative art making process, we know that accentuating individual and group perspectives strengthens the workshops and allows for direct participation and engagement. Open community involvement is an active element for us, and working together is essential. By creating paper together we develop our own interests in the art form and help to perpetuate the craft.
In the studio we are producing editions of books, portfolios, large-scale paper sheet formation, sculptures, installations, individualized paper recipes, portraits and prints using an innovative paper printing technique.
Rag hand papermaking is a process in which plant based fibers used in textiles are repurposed for paper. The textile is reduced into small pieces and beaten into a pulp with a machine called a Hollander Beater. The rendered pulp is used to form sheets one at a time by hand, pressed then dried. These sheets are the foundation of what can become further activation of the paper by creating prints, journals, books or a one of kind piece of artwork.
Today, we blend contemporary printing techniques with traditional papermaking. Pulp printing is a wet process that allows freshly formed sheets of paper to be instantaneously rendered with colorful imagery derived from a finely beaten pulp sprayed through a stencil, fusing the image and sheet in this versatile and approachable method. Much of Combat Paper artwork both in workshops and the studio have been produced using pulp prints.
Combat Paper workshops are a space to directly engage with the process of taking military uniforms and transforming them into handmade paper. Maintaining an open and accessible atmosphere is a founding principle that we continue with today. The workshop welcomes people to bring in their own material into the process. We also provide donated uniforms from veterans and their families to share.
Our write-up
Combat Paper is in our directory because we went looking for resources in this category and confirmed theirs is real and serving this community. What you see above is their own description, quoted from their site. We have not yet added our own write-up — the programs, eligibility and military fit that we check ourselves — and we would rather leave that blank than guess at it.
In the meantime, their official site is the authority: www.combatpaper.org
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