With the school and my internship we have had for the last two weeks been working on “to make homemade paper”. It’s fun! So I will show you what and how I did it at home.
This is what you need.
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1/2 a tee spoon off caoline to make the re-circle paper thicker (you can also use potato flour).
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The paper should be in water at least 24 hours. Mine has had a water bath 5 day’s.
You can’t use old paper with food stuff on!
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Mix it in your mixer with as much water that fits. My mixer isn’t that big so I added water in the between of mixing it.
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It should look like a paper-smoothie-mix. Make sure you have a good and big enough water-bath for the size of your frame.
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Here is some oregano getting into the paper-smoothie-mix (above).
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Here is cake color getting into the paper-smoothie-mix (above).
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You can use herbs, sparkly, cake color, flowers, grass, leafs or what ever you have at home or outside. π
You can go for a walk and see what you can find in your neighborhood or in a forest. Sort and press it. In a news paper for few day’s.
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This is what you need!
1. A frame with net and one without. 2. Cotton cloth. 3. Swamp. 4. Something to sture the paper-smoothie-mix.
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Put the frame on a cotton cloth upsidedown. Use a swamp to get out as much water as possible before you lift the frame up.
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Let the re-circled paper dry for 12 – 24 hours as horizontal as possible.
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You can hang them vertical after 12 – 24 hours and after that when they are completely dry you can put them under something heavy and make them flatter.
Good luck!
This is a good Christmas gift to those who like to write. π
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