Unearthed from New England barns and antique broken books, these delicate fragments of real 19th-century paper once held sermons, ledgers, sheet music, and letters - now lovingly recycled into texture-rich bits for your creative soulwork.
Shredded into dreamy confetti in our Texture Apothecary studio, each 1 oz bundle contains hundreds of paper flecks: browned edges, faded ink, fragments of forgotten stories, and whispers of a time long past.
Papermaking: Add to your pulp blend for authentic texture and romantic specks of vintage script.
Art Batts: Blend into fiber layers to add organic contrast, surprise, and subtle structure.
Weaving & Felting: Trap fragments under tulle for ghostly textile effects.
Mixed Media & Journals: Collage, stitch, or glue into spreads, tags, or shadow boxes.
Directions for making mixed media art batts:
Card a batt on your drum carder and remove from carder.
Unroll batt and lay flat on a clean surface.
Spray top side of batt lightly with hairspray batt adhesive.
Sprinkle mixed media onto batt. Use as much or little as you prefer. Based on my aesthetic preferences, 1 oz will embellish 3-6 batts.
Wait for adhesive to dry (about 45 seconds).
Fold batt in half lengthwise to encapsulate the mixed media within the fiber, and corespin or coreless corespun to enclose the media within the fiber.
Collect mixed media that falls out when spinning and reattach to yarn by spraying yarn with adhesive and sprinkling mixed media onto sprayed areas.
Ply with thread to soft set, if desired.
Do not soak.
Mixed media yarns are intended to be used for non-wearables.
