Summer 2014
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Volume
29
, Number
1
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Artist and papermaker Aliza Thomas studied art in Brussels and Paris. She has done extensive research into the history of Islamic papermaking. Thomas has taught art and papermaking in Israel, and has led workshops on papermaking and printmaking in different universities in the world. Currently she teaches papermaking at the Rijswijk Paper Biennials to children and adults. The Uzbek poet Mir Ali Shir Nava'i (1441–1501) called Samarkand paper, "the wings that spread the thoughts of wise people to the world." A century later, Qadi Ahmad authored a treatise for calligraphers and painters in which he praised Samarkand paper.
