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Hello people. Before we get started, here are the reasons you should make your own paper:
1 - Making your own paper is environmentally friendly.
2 - It will make your school projects look much more creative.
3 - It is something that creative people can do.
4 - You can make each piece of your paper unique.
Moving on...
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Hello people. Before we get started, here are the reasons you should make your own paper:
1 - Making your own paper is environmentally friendly.
2 - It will make your school projects look much more creative.
3 - It is something that creative people can do.
4 - You can make each piece of your paper unique.
Moving on...
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Naturally, we will need some materials. Here's the list:
1 - A mold and deckle. The mold is basically a screen stapled onto one side of a picture frame, it helps the paper dry. The deckle is similar to the mold because it is an identical picture frame, but it does not have a screen on it. The deckle is used to shape the paper. The size of the deckle determines how big your paper will turn out when finished.
2 - Food coloring. Food coloring gives your paper its color. Without it your paper may turn out to be grayish.
3 - Several pieces of letter-sized paper. These should be recycled, because this is a guide to making "Recycled Paper." I used a sheet of newspaper instead of several sheets of letter-sized paper. As long as you add extra food coloring to the newspaper, it should turn out fine.
4 - A small potato. The small potato gives the starch necessary to making paper. So, you could use some laundry starch instead.
5 - A flat square basin. The basin I am using is about 5 or 6 gallons in size. Make sure it is watertight too, as paper pulp will be put in it.
6 - 7 to 10 pieces of toilet paper. The toilet paper is used to help make the fibers necessary to hold the paper together. Without it, your paper will be harder to make.
7 - A blender. The blender blends all the paper pulp materials together to make the pulp. Make sure the blender is larger than 1 ¼ cups.
8 - Dryer lint. The dryer lint has the same purpose as the toilet paper, but it has more fibers to help hold the paper together. You only need a handful (when it is all fluffed out and not compacted) of this, but if you aren’t using toilet paper you can use a small bit more of lint.
9 - Newspaper. The newspaper is what you lay your paper on while it is drying.
10 - A sponge. The sponge helps dry and flatten your paper. It presses on the paper, soaking up water and flattening it.
11 - (OPTIONAL): Flowers. The flowers can be pressed into drying paper to make lovely flower prints.
12 – (OPTIONAL): Leaves. Leaves can also make lovely prints, but you can blend them up to make your paper look like it has speckles (and it does).
1 - A mold and deckle. The mold is basically a screen stapled onto one side of a picture frame, it helps the paper dry. The deckle is similar to the mold because it is an identical picture frame, but it does not have a screen on it. The deckle is used to shape the paper. The size of the deckle determines how big your paper will turn out when finished.
2 - Food coloring. Food coloring gives your paper its color. Without it your paper may turn out to be grayish.
3 - Several pieces of letter-sized paper. These should be recycled, because this is a guide to making "Recycled Paper." I used a sheet of newspaper instead of several sheets of letter-sized paper. As long as you add extra food coloring to the newspaper, it should turn out fine.
4 - A small potato. The small potato gives the starch necessary to making paper. So, you could use some laundry starch instead.
5 - A flat square basin. The basin I am using is about 5 or 6 gallons in size. Make sure it is watertight too, as paper pulp will be put in it.
6 - 7 to 10 pieces of toilet paper. The toilet paper is used to help make the fibers necessary to hold the paper together. Without it, your paper will be harder to make.
7 - A blender. The blender blends all the paper pulp materials together to make the pulp. Make sure the blender is larger than 1 ¼ cups.
8 - Dryer lint. The dryer lint has the same purpose as the toilet paper, but it has more fibers to help hold the paper together. You only need a handful (when it is all fluffed out and not compacted) of this, but if you aren’t using toilet paper you can use a small bit more of lint.
9 - Newspaper. The newspaper is what you lay your paper on while it is drying.
10 - A sponge. The sponge helps dry and flatten your paper. It presses on the paper, soaking up water and flattening it.
11 - (OPTIONAL): Flowers. The flowers can be pressed into drying paper to make lovely flower prints.
12 – (OPTIONAL): Leaves. Leaves can also make lovely prints, but you can blend them up to make your paper look like it has speckles (and it does).
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2. It depends on the thickness of the paper
3. I wanted to make my handwriting readable so i had a kid do it for me.