Handmade paper - easier way

I'm making handmade paper, and came up with an easier way to make small sheets. This might work for larger sheets as well, but as my current project uses smaller paper this is all that I've tried.

Buy two tiny wood picture frames from your local thrift store (I paid fifty cents each for these).
Remove the glass, photo, and retaining hardware from the frames,
Buy a pack of ScotchBright scrubbing pads (the green ones) or snag one from the kitchen.
Cut the scrubbing pad(s) to the size of the frames.

EDIT:  I'm adding information here based on failures and successes last night. Photos to follow.

Buy some tulle ($1.50 a yard at the fabric store: get the fine version - as in 'tiny holes' of the stuff used for kids tutus)
Cut the tulle to be a bit longer than the ScotchBright pad(s).

Note: the tulle is used to make a smoother paper, and to allow easier release of the new paper onto the couch (the surface on which you dry the paper). Earlier I used glass - a sad mistake - and the surface tension was enough to pull it off the scrubbing pad. When I went to tulle-covered towels, the paper never released from the scrubbing pad. Adding a layer of tulle on the scrubbing pad solved this problem.

Step 1

Place the scrubbing pad on top of the mold (your bottom frame, faced with the flat side up).

Place the tulle sheet on top of the scrubbing pad. Make sure it has no waves or wrinkles.

Add the deckle (the top frame, flat side down) gently onto the tulle-covered scrubbing pad.

Dunk your 'sandwich' into your pulp-water mixture.

Pull it out flat, shaking gently left-to-right then towards and away from you as the water drains to get more varied alignment of the pulp fibers.

Comments

[warrengoff]

Where do you get pulp fiber?

[Browncoat]

I think people will take scrap paper, cut it in strips or something, the put the paper & some water in a blender to make the pulp.