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| Recycled paper and tea leaves. |
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| Papers hanging to dry on a kitchen cupboard. |
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| More papers drying tide between the legs of the two tables in my sewing room |
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| Three impatiently dried with the iron and cut to size finished pieces. |
Today has been a very messy busy day making homemade paper for the new brief in uni. The brief is to make a minimum of 36 different handmade papers each one measuring A5. Today I have used recycled photo copy paper, envelopes, two boiled bananas and a handful of boiled red onion skins. I sprinkled a couple of the plain recycled paper sheets with tea leaves and another with dried Rosemary herb. I managed to make about 25 sheets of paper that now hang all over the flat in an attempt to dry out. However, I was rather impatient and tried to dry a few of the papers by sandwiching them between sheets of paper and ironing them dry. This was not the greatest idea and I decided to let the rest dry naturally. The dead line for this brief is the 28 November but it is a bit of a time consuming task so I must organise my self and set aside a good few hours every couple of days to enable me to complete the brief. The next batch of papers will be made from celery, pomegranate, and sweet potato.
4 comments:
How fascinating. Lucky we have the Internet to be able to search for ideas, coz that's a lot of paper!!
Hi Kath yes it is and a lot of messy work out of all those papers I got five sheets towards my 36. Its not has easy as it seems so I am hoping my next batch will be better. :)
I am so interested in this. I have purchased cotton linters with the intention of making paper but never got around to doing it! What was the problem with ironing it dry?
hi Lin well the paper was really wet and the fibres are not quite bonded together it took quiet a bit of time to iron it dry. Found it better to iron flat once it had dried natuaraly. But if you gett most of the excess water out ironing it dry is ok.
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