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The following Friends of Arnold Grummer's are online purveyors of crafting supplies and publications.
Paper Centers, Museums, Mills, Tours (USA)
Carriage House Paper Museum
MUSEUM (Brookline, MA) Books, handmade paper and artifacts used in the making of paper collected by Elaine Koretsky and Donna Koretsky.
www.papermakinghistory.orgColumbia Center for Book and Paper Arts
CENTER (Chicago, IL) Columbia College. Dedicated to furthering knowledge and appreciation of hand papermaking and book arts, including letterpress printing, bookbinding and artists' books.
www.colum.edu/Book_and_Paper/Crane Museum of Paper Making
MUSEUM (Dalton, MA) Museum. Exhibits trace the history of American papermaking from Revolutionary times. Crane makes paper for US currency.
www.crane.com/navContent.aspx?Name=MuseumDard Hunter Studios
MUSEUM (Chillicothe, OH) Dard Hunter´s Mountain House home and working studio.
www.dardhunter.comHistoric Rittenhouse
MUSEUM (Rittenhouse, PA) Museum. Site of the first paper mill in America.
www.ushistory.org/germantown/upper/rittenhouse.htmPaper Discovery Center
CENTER (Appleton, WI) Explore the world of paper with a look at its past, its future, and the role paper plays in all facets of our lives.
www.paperdiscoverycenter.orgPyramid Atlantic
CENTER(Baltimaore, MD) University of Maryland. Non-profit contemporary arts center dedicated to the creation and appreciation of hand papermaking, printmaking, digital arts, and the art of the book.
www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/studio/papermaking.htmRobert C. Williams Paper Museum
MUSEUM (Atlanta, GA) Internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology with over 10,000 watermarks, books, papers, tools, machines, and manuscripts. Features the Dard Hunter Collection of artifacts and books on paper and hand papermaking.
www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/index.htmlTwinrocker Handmade Paper
MILL, TOUR (Brookston, IN) A Twinrocker staff member will speak to your group about the history and practice of this ancient craft while you watch a master papermaker forming sheets by hand.
www.twinrocker.com/group_tours.htmlUniversity of Iowa Center for the Book
CENTER (Iowa City, IA) The UICB administers a Certificate program, whereby graduate students enroll in a set of classes distributed among printing, paper making, bookbinding, calligraphy, and historical/cultural courses.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ctrbook/index.shtmlPaper Making Topics
Watermarks
This blog entry has general historical information on watermarks; additional links at the end of the post.
http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/permalink/watermarks/Recycling Resources
Earth 911
An environmental resource site covering a wide range of topics of global interest to enable everyone to “Know Now, Act Fast and Make a Difference.”
http://earth911.org/EPA Recycling Education Resources
Students of all ages will find fun activities and project ideas to learn more about waste reduction, reuse, and recycling.
This site also provides information sources, tools, and data to enable student researchers to collect environmental information for use in projects and reports.
Kids For Saving Earth
Provides environmental education curriculum for all ages.
Environmental education topics such as conservation, endangered species, rainforests, forests, toxic waste sites, health issues, ecological concerns and more is covered on this website.
