Essential Art and Craft Supplies for October!
Stop scrolling, and start turning out some arts’n’crafts! Drum roll, please, for Essential Rolls for your Pulpific pursuits.
We are officially rolling (or Springing) towards the end of the year. Whatever the verb, things are rolling on swiftly. Let’s acknowledge it by listing three of Pulp's favourite indispensable tubes, reels, spools, scrolls, bolts - whatever you wanna call them!
How shall we start? Halloween is slowly but spookily spinning towards us. Just a thought. Even if it’s not your thing, we think there’s undeniably a flurry of creativity in the air. But don’t think; just act on your instinct to decorate.
Try it out with:
Rice paper rolls!
Be bold and experiment with printmaking, ink wash painting (sumi), gouache, calligraphy or even bookbinding. (An illustrated tome about ‘All Hallows Eve’, anyone?)
Get on your creative roll with some rice paper - the origins of which are actually quite interesting!
Of course China enters the chat, alongside Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Unlike the delicious rice paper rolls we know from Vietnamese cuisine, rice paper that you can put inedible ink to is not just made from rice fibres, but also mulberry, hemp and bamboo. Delectable for your artistic drive!
15 metres long, 45 cm wide, white in colour and made in Taiwan. How do ya like those measurements?!
Or maybe you have an appetite for sticking things together? Yes? Then get a roll on. To be specific:
Double-Sided Tape!
OK, we don’t want to alarm anyone, but you might be shocked to know that double-sided sticky tape was invented in 1987! Here was us thinking that it was an ancient Tibetan process, practiced by artisan monks. Nope. A man named Dean Waldenberger made it happen. But no mention of any ties to ancient Tibet, or monks in general.
Looking at it from a more practical angle, double-sided tape features good holding power, and has an easily removable backing liner.
The backing liner allows for precision when allocating the tape. It’s ideal for holding display posters, photographs, postcards, and for wrapping gifts! It’s acid-free and will not damage or discolour surfaces over time. What a winner! Here are the dimensions of tape variants:
12mm W x 33m L roll
18mm W x 33m L roll
12mm W x 10m L roll
Sweet!
Hightide field roll pencil case
Speaking of sweet, let’s take a look at this a sweet canvas 'Field' roll pen case from Japanese stationer HIGHTIDE.
It allows you to keep your favourite pens, pencils, brushes and artist’s paraphernalia safe when you're on the move to capture an amazing sunset, urban peoplescape, or an aesthetic haystack or two. Modern-day Impressionists, thank us later.
Made from a soft canvas fabric, the hightide pencase is flexible– perfect for placing in a handbag or backpack for work, study or travel. When unrolled flat, the pen case reveals three compartments; when rolled up and tied with the leather strap, it’s compact and secure.
Don’t even get us started on the origins of the pencil case. It’s a doozy. The inventors name? Augustus C. Dodge. You can’t make this stuff up!
The year was 1858 and Augie, a delegate and Senator from Iowa (Yep, in the USA), took a little packed stationery case into congress. He never had to search for a writing implement again.
Simply said, the rest is history.
Roll ‘Em Out.
The meaning behind all these stories? October vibes are giving creativity in the form of flexibility and movement. We move on from Winter, and pick up the pace of Spring. Time rolls on, and so does our creativity. We are in step with changing tempos of imagination, inspiration and vision!
Before we go, here’s an idea: Share your creations with us on socials with the hashtag #Roctobercreate
Roll it up, we’ll take it! xx