Here's How to Make Handmade Paper from Recycled Materials — Paperslurry
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Making paper by hand 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. Have those&n

A much better set of instructions, since my quick and dirty run down on my last post left a lot to the imagination.

I made my screens and deckles from old matching picture frames and dollar store canvases, where I pulled the canvas off the frames and stretched old polyester or silk scarves for the screen half.

Here’s a diagram with the staple order to get the tightest surface if you’re MacGyvering your own paper-makers. It won’t seem intuitive if you’ve never had to stretch your own canvas, but I’ve stretched dozens of screen and canvases — this is the best way. You’ll get a better result if the fabric is wet, but careful not to put too much tension on a weak frame.

    • Wren@lemmy.todayOPMEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Congrats on your new hyperfications. A paper shredder is a great investment if you get really into it. I save all my banana peels to make black banana paper.

        • Wren@lemmy.todayOPMEnglish
          4·
          18 days ago

          Okay, so, basically anything with fibre can be paper pulp. I scrape all the the excess starchy bits off the peels and hang them to dry, like I have a clothesline of dessicated banana peels in the kitchen. Once they’re bone dry I throw them in a bucket. When I have enough, I soak them again, blend, make paper. Nothing needs to be added, but you can throw in extra scrap if you want.

          Too much starch makes paper brittle.