Big Read Paper Making :: October 26, 2024

As part of Hive+EPL’s A Year of Joy and Gratitude Big Read programming, community members joined us at the Evanston Grows Farm at Eggleston Park on October 26, 2024 to make paper by hand from cotton linter pulp and plant fibers grown in the farm itself, harvested a week earlier.

Paper made during all of our Big Read papermaking workshops during A Year of Joy and Gratitude will be used to create two large collaborative tapestries that will be permanently displayed at both Evanston Public Library branches.

*images by Jamie Lou Thome and Monica Fox