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This page will be for addressing questions that come up in emails to us. Feel free to leave your comments on this page so they’ll all be together.

How soon do you require a commitment as to the number (1, 2, or 3) of swatch samples?

You don’t have to let us know how many different papers you are making ahead of time. Thanks for asking. You can play it by ear and see what you have time for. 

We’ll let you know how many samples you need to send for each recipe after August 31 when we know how many Swappers will be participating this year.

I make my paper from pulp which was beaten by someone else for me—though I make the sheets and also add pigments, etc. Can I still enter these?

Absolutely. Ideally you’ll make the sheets your own in some other way – through color, texture, etc.

I was a bit unclear about the covers, but now I assume that the swatch books are 8.5×11 inches in size (not 2×3 inches) and that we’ll be swapping covers as well as the swatches, is that correct?

Yes

My papers tend to be very thin, so for the covers, I’m wondering if I can collage/glue a few of my handmade sheets together to give them a bit more umph? So they will hold up as covers? 

Sure, sounds like a good way to make it work.

Can I enter paper samples that I might want to ‘work’ in different ways after creating the sheets? For example, sheets that’s been embossed, or woven, or printed on, or worked using Joomchi (Korean paper art)? Or do you prefer that the paper be ‘pure’ as it came from the mould and deckle?

Please do use Joomchi, woven, embossed, printed, and other decorative techniques. Those are some of favorite papers in the swatch books. See “Swatch Swaps of Yore”  for examples of some of the papers people have done in the past.