Pattern
-- color -- paper. These are Elisabeth Hyder's
art
and craft at Brookfield. Her decorative pattern papers
Her work should be seen, not described. So click on images below for a look.
Brookfield Paperworks
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About Elisabeth Hyder
Brilliant papers of many patterns
form the core of Elisabeth Hyder's art. Using a centuries-old technique of paste
paper, she works with more vibrant colors to coat paper sheets. Then, with
various tools, rolls, combs, and stamps of her own design or making, she works
free or geometrical patterns into the wet pigments. The dried papers have a
richly textured, almost three-dimensional look.
Elisabeth, a Swiss-born artist,
crafts her own papers into many usable products in her Central New England
studio. Boxes, photo and wedding albums, portfolios, journals, cards, and
correspondence folders are her useful pieces. Collages, color studies, and paper
weavings are framed as art.
She also makes a large assortment of
individual sheets and takes commissions for special-quantity projects such as
bookbinders' cover papers.
In addition to her handmade
designs in paste paper, Elisabeth also collaborates with her husband, a
letterpress printer, in the production of the Brookfield line of printed cards,
notes, stationery, labels, and miniature books of quotes. These are available in
paper shops nationally, distributed by OrangeArt of Woodstock, Connecticut.
Brookfield
Paperworks
23
High Street
North
Brookfield MA 01535
508-867-7274
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