Mix paper production method between Japan and Europe to make paper Documentary 'The Papermaker' pursuing the last paper craftworker in Europe

Gun Golf UrbrichtIs one of the last "European Papermaker" that makes paper ordered manually. Mr. Ulbricht has a background in learning papermaking laws in Japan and Germany, France and the UK, manufactures various weights, texture, writing comfort, watermark pattern, color and color paper according to orders from all over the world I will. Mr. Urubrich's work, which receives orders from printers, designers, photographers, art restoration fields such as books and paintings, and a number of prominent artists, is the documentary movie "The PapermakerYou can see with.

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Mr. Ulbricht is a craftsman who manually makes paper.


In Europe it is one person who can make paper by a few traditional manufacturing methods, and we are making special paper according to the order.


Mr. Urubrich places orders for special papers from around the world, specializing in print fields, art restoration fields, bookbinding fields, designers, photographers and so on. Also,Jenny HolzerAndLouise Bourgeois,Ralph Rotman,Jonathan Meece,Damien Hirst,Max MarkWe have customers with prominent artists such as.


Urubicho scoops the material of paper with formwork ...


Dry it and make paper. Mr. Ulbricht's paper making technique is based on the paper making method of hand-made using Japanese form and other forms and the European paper making methodCombinedthing.


Of course, paper made by Mr. Ulbricht is not an easy task like finishing the desired paper simply by putting pulp and other materials in the formwork.


If you adjust the handle of machine used for paper making ......


The engine gets numb.


Mr. Urubrich, who thinks that "paper has the ability to appeal to the five senses such as texture, rigidity, reflectance, beat, and the ability to leave records over 1000 years" attracted the creativity and possibilities of papermaking work It is said that they are planning to do all the paper making processes at work on their own.


Mr. Ulbricht also uses flax, hemp, silk, Mitsumata, Ganpi (gumpfish) etc. which are also used for washi as well as cotton for paper materials.


We will introduce the paper material formulated in the machine.


Mr. Ulbrich may also recycle used paper and use it.


We recycle from waste paper such as maps, bank notes and music scores.



We also manipulate the properties of paper by adding other materials.


Adding calcium carbonate can suppress aged deterioration ... ....


Adding a neutral sizing agent can improve writing comfort.


By using many other pigments ......


You can affix colors freely,Create wallpaperAlso possible. Other paper properties such as watermark and thicknessYou can control.


Mr. Ulbricht is stocking the paper and types used by many industries.


About paper, "I always say that there are individualities on paper," Urubrich says.


"People can distinguish paper not by superficial but by" what is written ""


"Court identification information, court documents ......"


"Paper has the power to affect life and death"


"Paper shakes emotions like a heart when a love letter came"


Mr. Ulbricht sheds light on the paper and is gazing at the watermark of the paper on which the female's face is reflected.


"Make paper is a comprehensive task like making other things"


"When you complete the whole work you can make good paper"


"I lose myself during paper making, making sheets of paper one after another ..."


"Put the ingredients and make the perfect perfect recipe with the recipe and formwork screen, the best one will be completed."


I breathe and lift a thin paper that Urbricht can penetrate.


Of books and paintingsRestoration fieldTo be active inOne of the world's thinnest papers·Berlin Tissue(Berlin Tissue), "per square meter80 gramsOne hundredth as much as the weight of a general paper named "one square meter per square meterApproximately 2 gIt is a paper of light weight. Ulbricht is one of the few who can manufacture Berlin Tissue.


"The position Papermaker has been excluded from commercial registration in the 1950s, because essentially no one has done such things."


"As the demand for accurate and quality paper increased, the existence of" paper that is comfortable, sensual, appealing to emotion "we use in everyday life has been reinstated and will continue to be Needs will increase. "


Ulbricht finally removes the formwork ... ...


The paper that appeared was carved with a billmark, Ulricht's logo.