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For me paper need to be both beautiful and functional. Here is a small selection of my 'paperwork'.

ON THE LEFT:
Is some lovely stationary in a very light cream colour with an illustration on top. The paper has texture and is thick; if it were man-made (it is not) I would say it was an imprint of a paper-mold. Perhaps the mold of the machine?

ON THE RIGHT:
I practice sheet I picked up from a museum (Meermanno in The Hague). It is a practice sheet for Western style calligraphy that was practiced by monks. It is very smooth and thin paper. Wildly illustrated.

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Sorry, I don't have a photo to upload and share. My sample of paper is attached to a small notebook that seems it would be used as a diary or  journal

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Sorry, I don't have a photo to upload and share. My sample of paper is attached to a small notebook that seems it would be used as a diary or  journal

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The paper is lined and quite thin to the touch. It seems slightly yellowed as I believe this sample notebook is quite old. There are about 20 lines of equal length and the top border is about equal to the width 2 lines would make. The border line also uses a double line which makes it stand out nicely.

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It's a paper with yellow flowers around the edges with a white square in middle.

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The very thin pastel coloured papers are Japanese Washi that I bought at the Nikkei Centre in Burnaby BC Canada. The copper coloured paper is a synthetic paper from Japan, purchased from Paper-Ya in Vancouver BC Canada. The black and white papers are from Africa, purchased from Ming Papers in Seattle WA USA. The reddish Turkish marbled paper is also from Paper-Ya. I don’t know what any of the natural fibres are. I bought them because I thought they were very beautiful and that I could use them in my printmaking (for making chine college etchings) and in making my artist books and enclosure portfolios and boxes.

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Xylographed endpaper for a 1778 book made in Turin

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Xylographed endpaper for a 1778 book made in Turin

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Xylographed paper for a German book from the second half of the 1700s. Likely made in Fabriano

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Xylographed paper for a German book from the second half of the 1700s. Likely made in Fabriano

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Spending time recently folding origami — a thousand cranes for a sick friend, eight-sided boxes as gifts, and included in the photo is my very first origami paper sent by my obāchan — cost 10¥!

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I’m on holiday in a rural area with no beautiful paper anywhere. When I return home, I will post photos of some of the beautiful papers I have there

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On silk. LS

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Small pieces of paper are made for decorative purposes.They are painted with special colours, some of which are gold and silver. I think that they are "dōsagami" dōsa paper. (According to what is mentioned in this course, it is known as dōsabiki “dōsacoating” technique. This technique prevents ink and paint from smudging and increases vividness).
Even if they have a colourful pattern, unfortunately I do not know in detail the technique that has been used for them.However, they are of unique beauty!

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These are Japanese papers made up of different materials.Two of them contain silk fibres and pieces of gold (gampi-shi paper) and I think for the thicker paper, the "tamezuki" technique has been used, while one of them contains plant fibres.The thicker coloured ( kakishibu,a reddish brown colour that gets more intense with repeated applications) paper has a rough texture and is probably a "chirimen" paper.
Because through this course I learned some things about the japanese paper, I wanted to refer to some techniques for which I would like teachers to correct me if I am wrong. Thank you!

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This is an example of carta varese used to decorate the interior of a drawer

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Here is a photo of my wall tapestry in my bedroom in the country house.
It was put on in the 50s of last century
It's nice with yellow roses on i

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Blotting paper from beneath Batik on paper

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Blotting paper from beneath Batik on paper

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I have lots of sheets of this type of thing, some not so pretty. The actual batik was a fan shape. L.Slater

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L.Slater

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Hand made paper from Amalfi, Italy
It is white-cream, rough, frizzled at the edges. As you can see, it is used for special cards and envelopes

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Just went through my collection of Japanese-books-and-fans, and found these. The title strips on the books appear to be real kumogami paper.  The fan painting is not kumogami, but I thought it was an interesting mix of inspirations from various traditional paper decoration techniques, and it is certainly beautiful. I have just noticed, too, that the covers of these books are very glittery - just on one side of the paper; perhaps it has been coated with a mica layer

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I have so many beautiful papers including many Japanese papers, some Nepalese papers, Italian and English woodblock papers, etc. But I will share some Turkish marbling that I did recently

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Found this handmade paper from sydved.se

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Geisha?

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A more action based woodprint

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Alledged no13 of the 36 Fuji prints by Hokusai. Sorry for photo quality

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This was late 50s early 60s wall paper. It is English but, so long ago I cannot remember where it was purchased from.

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Signature from a watercolour of the 1920's (possibly) bought by my grandparents. The 2 pictures are elsewhere on the board.

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These are using ink sticks and a tiny amount of ox gall on the water. Different Oriental and Western papers. More to follow

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This was a technique whose name eludes me! It begins with ‘o’! The xuan paper (very absorbent) was folded down into a small rectangle. The corners of the folded paper were dipped into Japanese ink and paint.
It was carefully opened out, and hung to dry

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My japanese dolls bookmarks. Freshly made

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I understand that this shape is used as a stent! The Japanese paper is soft to touch and easy to squeeze and flex

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Paper for scrapbooking by Glitz Design, USA. I have lots of scrapbooking papers but this one is quite thick. It is acid free, lignin free, 100% archival quality. The reverse side of the paper can also be used.

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used in chanoyu

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Decorative origami paper folded into a paper crane. I received this as a small present for a purchase at a shop. The paper may be chiyogami. You can feel the  texture of the painted pattern on the surface.

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Different sets sold in block

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Scraps of washi paper

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Journal that uses banana paper.

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Acrylic painting and sand

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Decorated washi paper
Online order from AliExpress

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Decorated washi paper
Online order from AliExpress

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I was given this notepad from my Japanese friends, who know how much I like writing little letters and notes to my friends. I like how I can use the lines either to write horizontally or vertically. It is a beautiful off-white paper with embossed patterns of flowers, tree branches and leaves. It is thicker than the regular paper and the patterns are in a slightly darker off-white shade. It is quite tangible, as the granulation of the paper can be just about felt under the fingers.

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Small old map of Belgium and The Netherlands from 1597. The slightly brownish paper has clear screen marks and a water mark. Sharp (copper plate) engraved map is printed on one side and Latin text with beautiful illustration and decorated initial of the first word on the other side (not shown). Some of these old maps are hand-coloured, but this one is not. Just black ink used for printing.

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A selection of handmade papers, corrugated waxed paper for recycling projects and the marbled paper from an heirloom book.

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Thick translucent paper (original egiptian paper)

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Thin white fibre paper

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thick paper with brown fibres

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Thin white  fiber paper magnified (for collage), wave design

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Thin white  fiber paper magnified (for collage), square grid design

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Thin white  fiber paper magnified (for collage), fan design. The blue background is the sky, since the paper was taped  to the window to take the photo.

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Painted with acrylic inks and glossy medium (for collage)

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This is a marbled paper is made with turkish technique, used for binding purposes. It's a thick laid paper.

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These belonged to my grandparents. They are watercolours, either Japanese or Chinese (like most Europeans I can't tell the difference!) and a date on a framing label on the back is smudged, but indicates October 192? (either 1920, 1925 0r 1928). Possibly bought at the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 -5 or in London at the same time. The paper is quite thin, with a slight texture , the pictures mounted onto a coarse green paper that may now be showing signs of acid decay. This has not affected the pictures.

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Just happened to have these lying around. The brown paper is a Tibetan handmade paper I used for endpapers in a handbook for barbers. It has rough edges typical of handmade paper and is reasonably strong with long fibers and no strong grain direction. It is diifcult to use for a paste down as it strectches in both directions.The marbled paper is hand marbled paper in the simple antique spot style. The paper is good quality but machine made wood pulp with a very strong grain direction. I used this paper for a book on Australian wines.