Islamic Papermaking Lecture & Demonstration by Radha Pandey

This NYBGW event will be held on June 12th, 2017 @ 5:30pm - 7:30pm at the Fashion Institute of Technology. 227 West 27th Street, Dubinsky Building, 8th floor alcove.  This event will be open to the public and guests are welcome. For rsvp or more information contact jane_mahoney@fitnyc.edu.

Radha Pandey visits New York for an in depth presentation on Islamic Papermaking. 

Radha's lecture features traditional Islamic-world papermaking history and technique with a focus on contemporary practices in India.  She uses the Kagzi family as a case study to illuminate the introduction of papermaking in India and how it changed under the British rule.  The talk will briefly cover how papermaking affected printing, publishing and literacy and why it is relevant today.  There will be time for Q&A with hands-on samples of traditional Islamic papers from India, dye-stuffs and tools used for burnishing and sheetforming.

There will also be a demonstration which entails traditional Islamic world papermaking including, sheetforming, couching, and vat set-up using Islamic papermaking equipment. This demonstration covers traditional fiber preparation in Islamic papermaking. 

Radha Pandey is a papermaker and letterpress printer. She earned her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book where she studied Letterpress printing, Bookbinding, and Papermaking. Her studies focused on Western, Eastern and Islamic Papermaking techniques. 

Her artist’s books are held in 35 public collections including the Library of Congress and Yale University. Currently,  Ms. Pandey is working on an artist book about erosion and sedimentation, using natural dyes titled Deep Time.