tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382031464807131889.post8277137077118299025..comments2024-01-23T07:15:54.684-08:00Comments on Adventures of the Wandering Book Artists: Wandering to EnglandUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382031464807131889.post-12920471418898927512021-10-04T08:17:44.542-07:002021-10-04T08:17:44.542-07:00Well Gill, if you're still around, I have just...Well Gill, if you're still around, I have just given a dear friend a piece of paper art produced by Gillian Spires. I wonder what has become of her? We followed Gillian's exploration of paper making in Myanmar (Burma) She wrote regularly to us and we published her stories of the trip in our business to business magazine Paper Focus. My family visited her home where she showed my daughter to make some hand sheets. And to read of the existence of Adventures of the Wandering Book Artists. I must find out more !<br /><br />John (Watson) chair of trustees at Frogmore Paper Mill visitor centre Hemel HempsteadAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05503319843776503656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382031464807131889.post-40652535578648012042018-02-22T13:51:50.631-08:002018-02-22T13:51:50.631-08:00My great grandfather and grandad worked here. They...My great grandfather and grandad worked here. They were papermakers in Kent but moved down to Devon in the late 1800s. There are pictures with my grandfather on the cover of the books.Tony Phippsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382031464807131889.post-42493166627098613632017-05-14T02:53:14.354-07:002017-05-14T02:53:14.354-07:00Wow, now that is a coincidence to beat all spooky ...Wow, now that is a coincidence to beat all spooky coincidences! I have recently moved to Norfolk (in the UK) and have a friend staying. We are both 'arty/crafty' people and were talking about various things, including papermaking (I've 'dabbled' in lots of hobbies in the past) I was telling my friend about a course I'd been on in Devon with a lady whose name I couldn't recall, who made paper from NZ flax that she grew. I went into my sewing room and found the papers I'd made (a feat in itself given the amount of stuff I have, plus the fact that I only moved in September.<br />Anyway, amongst the delicate papers I made on the course, was a printed sheet of instructions, with the name Gillian Spires at the bottom - so that was obviously the name of the lady who ran the course. <br />I searched on the Internet to see if I could find out if she is still working, and found just a few references to her, dating back to 1994, and the only current reference was your blog - written yesterday!<br />I ŵonder, is Gillian Spires still around, and is she still papermaking?<br />Sorry for the rambling, long winded story, but it was just so odd how this unfolded - small world or what?!? Gill<br />vintagerockchickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11771490446494303513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382031464807131889.post-23739319581298991402017-05-13T08:49:46.564-07:002017-05-13T08:49:46.564-07:00What a wonderful story about a wonderful book. Tha...What a wonderful story about a wonderful book. Thanks, Peter and Donna.<br />Rhan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11298421513602991812noreply@blogger.com