Sam has been training in the endangered craft of hand-papermaking under Tom Frith-Powell at The Paper Foundation since mid-2022, learning and practising skills including beating, sheet formation, couching, drying and paper finishing, workshop maintenance and health and safety.
QEST funding will now support Sam for the rest of her apprenticeship training, helping to develop her practical skills, and her theoretical and historical knowledge in the craft of European papermaking.
Sam hopes to graduate and become a journeyman papermaker, continue working at The Paper Foundation and in the future become a master papermaker.
