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BECOME A BRILLIANT PAPERMAKING ARTIST
Want to make better quality paper? Want to transform natural pulp into pulp paintings, sculptures, and more Looking to transform your creative work with more advanced papermaking techniques?
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Make handmade paper! Papermaking at home can be a pretty simple process. It’s also a fantastic way to use up your old receipts, scrap papers, junk mail, and copy paper that you were about to throw in the recycling bin, and instead create a thing of glorious handmade beauty.
May Babcock, papermaking artist and founder of Paperslurry.com will teach you how to:
- create paper pulp from scrap paper
- make a simple mould and deckle for forming sheets
- pull, press and dry your handmade paper
- optional surface sizing*
Material List
- Scrap Papers**
- Plastic storage tub or vat
- Kitchen blender
- sponge
- rolling pin
- cloth, towels, blankets or other absorbent material
- clothesline & clothespins
- Mould & Deckle
- 2 picture frames the same size
- window screening
- duct tape
- staple gun and staples
- optional: weatherstrip for the deckle (I'm dumb and forgot to mention this in the materials video section!)Â
- Optional Surface Sizing
- Egg whites
- Soft bristle brush
- Small measuring cup
Download this class PDF.
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* Sizing makes your handmade paper more water-resistant, so you can use watercolor, ink, and water-based media without the ink 'bleeding'. This class shows you how to inexpensively surface size your paper with egg whites. Advanced surface sizing options include wheat or rice starch and rabbit-skin glue, which this class does not cover.
** Drawing, printmaking, and watercolor papers are best because they are generally made from stronger fibers. Your fiber/scrap choice and its characteristics dictate the quality of the final sheet. Avoid newspaper and magazine paper, they will make weak and brittle paper.
