Penland School of Craft, Aug 10-16
Vietnamese papermaking with Dó
The first ever Vietnamese papermaking workshop conducted at Penland School of Crafts with fully eqipped studio with Vietnamese traditional equipment using the liềm seo (bamboo woven screen) made from master screen weaver Thài Đô Duy and the khung seo (two-part wooden frame) made from master woodworker Nguyễn Công Hoàng.
Students experimented with sheet formation with various sizes, fiber preparation, and had a chance to experiement with dó bark manipulation. Various demonstrations were covered including bark lace for sculpture, sheet formation with dó, gampi, and regionally grown kozo from Amy Richards studio , bark thread, and bark cloth for textile.
Images by Jeannie Pham, Veronica Pham
Paper Book Intesive, May 18 - 29, 2025
Ox-Bow School of Crafts
Experimentations: Vietnamese Papermaking
For centuries, traditional Vietnamese papermaking communities across the country have depended on various plant materials local to their region for making paper. Plants including paper mulberry, perennial shrubs, and bamboo were used in making paper for spiritual and mundane use. In this workshop, students learned traditional Vietnamese papermaking techniques using the liềm seo (bamboo woven screen) and khung seo (two-part wooden frame) to make paper. Students experimented with making papers out of dó plant fibers grown in Viet Nam, locally collected plant fibers around the Oxbow area as well as paper mulberry grown in North America to conduct comparisons in fiber length, sheen, and strength in sheet formation.
Students worked in various sizes—9’’ x 12’’, 12’’ x 18’’, and 20’’ x 30’’—everyone will have a chance to build their own unique library sample of papers. Instruction covered fiber preparation, hand beating, sheet formation, pressing, drying using traditional equipment, and demos of bark manipulation like bark lace and making thread.
GENERATOR MAKERSPACE, April 26, 2025
Materiality as Story, Vietnamese Papermaking
Marking 50 years since the Fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War, Veronica will host an open house papermaking commemoration workshop to the public for the community to participate in Vietnamese papermaking using traditional equipment constructed during her residency at Generator.
Participants made handmade paper and experiments with local materials including locally collected Milkweed and Eastern paper mulberry.
Press: Getting to know Veronica Pham, Winter 2025 artist-in-residence
Art at the Kent, Calais VT,
September 20, 2025
Big Paper, Community, Vietnamese Papermaking
This is a public workshop open to the community to participate in Vietnamese papermaking through a large-scale collaborative piece. Participants worked together in the papermaking, watermarking, and pulp painting process to create a collective piece. Participants will experiment using local materials for the papermaking process using milkweed, hemp, regional paper mulberry, and recycled cotton rag.
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