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Paper pulp will do a number on your pipes, so use your screen or a colander in the sink when you drain your vat.
When you're done making sheets, top off your pile with another 'felt' and some more newspaper. The result is called a "post".
Brown paper bags don't blend up that well, so give it more blending if you don't like the chunks (which I do).
Prepare your space. Next to the vat, depending on your handed-ness, lay down some newspaper and then a 'felt'. Have the rest of your newspaper and 'felts' nearby. Once you get going, you're not going to want to search around.
This is how fine I blend my pulp. How you blend yours is up to personal taste. I like a few chunks. A sturdy blender and some patience will get your finer pulp and therefore finer-grained paper, but if you wanted perfect paper, you would buy it instead of making it.
Add your pulp to the vat. I use three blenders of pulp to one blender of water. This will make a nice soup, not too thick, not too watery, and about the right height (near the middle) in the vat.
The lid is very important in this process. If your pulp goes flying all over it will be awful to clean up. You want to blend until your motor sounds a little tired (best explanation), then up your speed and blend for another 10-30 seconds.
After three to five sheets, you'll find that your paper is getting thin and maybe being a brat about releasing from the screen. Time to add more pulp. This batch is white with some brown paper bag thrown in.
Squeeze excess water out of your sponge as you go, you want to get as much water out of your paper as possible so it will release from the screen.
. . . flip it over. The water in the screen should hold the paper to your screen enough for you to do this.
Mix up your pulp and water by stirring your hand around in it. This is called "charging" your vat. You'll want to do this before you make each sheet, or thereabouts, any time the paper and water start to separate.
Starting from a corner, pull your screen off the paper. If it won't let go, plop it back down and soak up more water with the sponge.
This is a large cast iron bookbinding book press/papermaking press I have built. I have one for sale only. It has large platen size and can put tremendous pressure on for papermaking. It weights over a hunderd pounds. For details on this, email me through the website as it's not listed there.
For other equipment I build for sale, see
www.affordablebindingequipment.com
I can build CUSTOM sizes of anything you see there and if you have an idea of something you can't find, let me know.
I may be able to make if for you.
Doors in traditional Korean homes (and palaces) were made with rice paper. Some are sliding doors; others open inwardly or outwardly. Because of the skill used, such homes were warm even in the cold winter months. Before winter, the paper was usually changed and the doors and windows weather-proofed.
Traditional handmade paper was an indispensable material of daily life in Korea. The versatile use of paper can be easily seen in Korean culture throughout its history. Traditional handmade Korean paper was used for calligraphy, books, and envelopes; for doors, walls, and windows; for furniture, such as wardrobes, cabinets, and chests; for craft objects, such as writing brush holders, umbrellas, lanterns, boxes, baskets, fans, and kites; and for clothing and shoes. Koreans seem to be the only people who have been using paper for their floors.
Many traditions have declined in Korea, including traditional paper making. There are still a few paper makers producing papers in the traditional way in Korea, but it has been difficult for them to earn a living.
Paper making probably existed in Korea as early as the third century or at least before the end of the 6th century. This belief is based on a piece of paper unearthed from the 116th ancient tomb in 1931. As this tomb belonged to the Naknang period (108 BCE – 313 CE), it is possible that at least around the beginning of the fourth century, paper making was carried out in Korea.
In 610 Damjing, a Korean Buddhist monk, introduced paper making skills to Japan along with ink sticks, a millstone, and coloring methods.
DSC_0792pp......a cottage industry in Bhutan.......http://wanderlustandlipstick.com/blogs/debbysdepartures/2012/01/29/the-process-of-making-bhutanese-handmade-paper/
The most renowned in Poland, the Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki Zdrój, is located in the 17th century paper mill, a unique industrial monument.
More about Poland: www.poland.gov.pl
Muzeum Papiernictwa w Dusznikach Zdroju mieści się w XVII wiecznym młynie papierniczym, unikatowym zabytku techniki.
Fot. Mariusz Cieszewski
The maki-e workshop was followed by one making washi. Some of us got to try our hand at pounding the mulberry pulp. Tiring work but enlightening, especially as it was my first papermaking experience.
I am very happy with how the lungs/heart turned out. I got the general shapes from this illustration.
In this studio intensive taught by artist and award-winning author Aimee Lee '99, students make books and paper by hand in the context of global history and culture.
Photo by Yvonne Gay
a wet clay soup is coming down the hill, above our house, after the many and hefty rains... gladly not towards the hamlet, but turning to the right
the road will need some repair
on the left the papermaking workshop, close to being finished in its basic functions... :)
We visited a papermaking studio in the western mountains of Japan. Fascinating to see how hand papermaking is done in Japan.
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Have you thought about making your own paper to use in your art/craft projects? What a satisfying thing to do, especially when you add in the benefit of recycling discarded paper to create something that's useful and lovely.
In honor of Earth Day, The Arnold Grummer's Paper Making company will be sending a Complete Paper Making Kit to one lucky person worldwide.
It's ideal for children ages 8 and up and adults, and does not require a blender. You can even make ten sheets of paper at a time.
www.allthingspaper.net/2020/04/easy-paper-making-via-arno...
Also check the post for a discount for All Things Paper readers and watch for a paper making tutorial on the blog tomorrow. 😍
Have you thought about making your own paper to use in your art/craft projects? What a satisfying thing to do, especially when you add in the benefit of recycling discarded paper to create something that's useful and lovely.
In honor of Earth Day, The Arnold Grummer's Paper Making company will be sending a Complete Paper Making Kit to a lucky person worldwide.
It's ideal for children ages 8 and up and adults, and does not require a blender. You can even make ten sheets of paper at a time.
www.allthingspaper.net/2020/04/easy-paper-making-via-arno...
Also check the post for a discount for All Things Paper readers and watch for a paper making tutorial on the blog tomorrow. 😍
During her papermaking residency, Cara Lynch dives into the world of American glass and stenciling to create this newest body of exquisite pulp paintings. Read more about how her brightly-colored, layered works are questioning the boundaries of fine art and craft: bit.ly/caralynch.
Paper making setup. The soaked junkmail paper was blended in a blender to make the paper pulp. A couple picture frames and fiberglass window screen were used to make the screen and deckle.
Paper carries meaning far deeper than the words it can convey. In direct collaboration with art therapists, the Peace Paper Project brings the artistic expression of resilience and healing to communities all over the world. We learned about paper making as cultural transformation in this lecture and live demonstration.
Photograph by Hanna Pitz
Paper removed from screen onto a piece of felt. The papers, made from shredded junkmail, will dry a light gray color.
The most renowned in Poland, the Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki Zdrój, is located in the 17th century paper mill, a unique industrial monument.
More about Poland: www.poland.gov.pl
Muzeum Papiernictwa w Dusznikach Zdroju mieści się w XVII wiecznym młynie papierniczym, unikatowym zabytku techniki.
Fot. Mariusz Cieszewski
Make pollinator seed paper at home. Easiest enough for young children to do! Let's feed the bees and butterflies.
www.allthingspaper.net/2020/04/make-pollinator-seed-paper...
2018-08-15 Golden Legacy 75 Years of Original Art from Golden Books Robert C Williams Museum of Papermaking Georgia Tech
Exhibition Dates:
June 29 - September 7, 2018
Children have loved Little Golden Books for over 75 years. They have written their names inside each front cover and delighted in the colorful picures and wonderful stories. Thanks to the happy hours spent with each book, many children have developed a lifelong love for reading. Launched in 1942-- the first full year of America's involvement in the Second World War-- Little Golden Books made high-quality illustrated books avaiable at affordable prices for the first time to millions of young children and their parents. Among the artists who contributed to the ambitious series were greats of the European émigré community (including Garth Williams, Feodor Rojankovsky, and Tibor Gergely) who had gathered in New Tork as the European situation worsened; alumni of the Walt Disney Studios (including Gustaf Tenggren, Martin Provensen, J. P. Miller, and Mary Blair); and such American originals as Leonard Weisgard, Eloise Wilkin, Elizabeth Orton Jones, Richard Scarry, and Hilary Knight.
Sixty-five masterpieces of original illustration art by these and other artists—chosen from the vast Random House archive—are featured in the exhibition, including art from such picture-book classics as The Poky Little Puppy, Tootle, Home for a Bunny, The Kitten who Thought He was a Mouse, The Color Kittens, I Can Fly, and more.
Artists exhibited in the show include: Tibor Gergely, Elizabeth Orton Jones, Eloise Wilkin, Aurelius Battaglia, Sheilah Beckett, Garth Williams, Richard Scarry, Gertrude Elliot, Alice and Martin Provensen, Corinne Malvern, Leonard Weisgard, Jan Pfloog, Feodor Rojankovsky, A.Birnbaum, Mary Blair, Trina Schart Hyman, J.P.Miller, Gustaf Tenggren, Bob Staake, Dan Yaccarino, Hilary Knight, David Diaz, Nicola Slater, Brigette Barrager, and Annie Won.
The exhibit was developed by the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, Abilene, Texas, in 2007 and updated in 2017.