Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Anna Franklin, author of The Sacred Circle Tarot, The Fairy Ring Oracle, A Romantic Guide to Handfasting, and the new Hearth Witch's Compendium.
Paper made from herbs can make your magical spells and talismans more powerful. It is infused with the powers of the herbs, and created with intent. Fibrous herbs suitable for making herbal paper include flax, nettle, rush, cereals, sunflower, pampas grass, broom, bamboo, camomile, cow parsley, dandelion, dill, fennel, iris, and mullein.
Simply put, herb paper is made by soaking vegetable matter until the fibres separate, collecting it on a mesh, trawling away the excess pulp, and allowing it to