It's a flat sieve used to take the watered paper bulk out of a vessel. The cotton fibres are layered on the mesh to be drained. The water drips through the sieve and slowly the paper is ready to be pressed onto a felt. If you've incorporated a pattern into the mesh, you see this on the newly formed sheet of paper.

Four to five days for our speciality, the shadow watermark. Only when producing the first piece of paper will you see if your work during that time was successful. The method itself is a well kept secret, but in principle it involves incorporating the lines, surfaces, light and shadow of the motif into the mesh.

When the right height of the stack is achieved, the water will be drained in the screw press. The incorporated pattern in the mesh can then be seen as a watermark on the sheet of dried paper. The results surprise everyone, even paper experts. Other processes include letterpressing, printing, fineart printing and cyanotyping.

Most ideas initially find their way onto a piece of paper, so for me paper is an important source of creativity. Handwritten information can be read even in hundreds of years' time. Digital information vanishes unless it is constantly transformed into the latest format. Therefore, paper will always have a future.