Fun Paper Mache Facts

The Irish author, artist, and explorer, Isaac Weld (born 1774) made a boat from paper mache in which he sailed the Lake of Killarney.

In 1833, Charles Frederick Bielefeld built prefabricated cottages and a ten room villa incorporating paper mache structural designs and decorations. In 1853 he published his book, "Portable Buildings," which included plates illustrating his designs.

Until the 1970’s, paper mache was used for casting molds for daily newspapers.

In India, the masks for chau dance ( a traditional dance form of Bengal) has been made from Paper Mache since centuries

In the early 1800's, French physicist Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux was inspired by the paper mache dolls of a contemporary artist, Francois Ameline, and after receiving his medical degree, he created the first anatomical human figures for medical training for the Paris Academy of Medicine. Five years later he opens factory to manufacture human, veterinary and botanical paper mache models.

Extensive paper mache work incorporated within a famous church in Norway survived 40 years before the church was demolished.