2025 Handmade Paper Exchange 🎉

Hello, Handmade Papermakers!

You are invited to participate in the 4th annual full-sheet handmade paper swap! This exchange is open to ALL levels of papermaker. Your organizers are Sophia Hotzler and Genevieve Nordmark.

What You Need to Do:

• Make handmade paper in size A4, B5, D4, or US letter size. Anything goes, but if you use glitter or any other material that easily flakes off of your paper, please enclose each sheet in a sheet sleeve.
• Send 12 sheets to Sophia Hotzler, postmarked by February 15, 2025. Write the fiber used and your name on each sheet.
• Fill out this google form with your information and recipe for your paper.
• This project is pay what you can. Requested contribution is US$12 (US based) or US$35 (everywhere else). This can be a check or money order made out to Sophia Hotzler, or a payment to
  Paypal: @sophiahotzler
• If you know that the US Postal Service does not reliably get mail to your country, please email Genevieve and we will work out another shipment method.

Ship your paper to:

Submissions are closed. See ya in 2026!

What You’ll Get Back

• 10 curated sheets of handmade paper housed in a handmade paper enclosure, postmarked back to you by April 15, 2025.
• Images of all submitted papers along with recipes, uploaded to Instagram and Facebook @handmadePaperExchange
• A pdf of all recipes and pictures of papers will be made available to participants and the public.

email

genevieve.nordmark@gmail.com with questions!

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What does the contribution fee cover?

A: The contribution fee covers USPS priority mail return shipment of papers to US participants at $10.75. International shipping will go USPS. Price will depend on. . . . So much! The remaining funds will bridge the expense of pay-what-you-can participants, materials for making the enclosures, and maybe buy your organizers a coffee. 😁

Q: Can I send paper bigger or smaller than the A4/B5/D4/US letter size?

A: Please keep your paper in the realm of these standard sizes.

Q: Why do I have to send in 12 if I’m only getting 10 back?

A: We create two full sets of papers every year. We keep one set to have a collection of all papers from over the years. This year your second extra paper will become part of the University of Iowa’s special collections in the Peter and Donna Thomas Fine Press Collection, thanks to papermaker and participant Peter Thomas. Check out more about him here and the collection here. The collection is searchable, so anyone curious about papermaking can find your paper and recipe. Fun fact: the University of Iowa is home to the Center for the Book, a program all about the art and history of books.

Q: Do all 12 sheets need to be the same?

A: Nope. Just make sure to send recipes or information about each one.

Q: I have an idea that might make this swap more inclusive, or I want to participate but have a resource barrier. Can I contact you about it?

A: We hope you will! Email Genevieve at genevieve.nordmark@gmail.com