From: tjones@willamette.edu (Tyler Jones)
Subject: Re: make your own paper
Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:36:13 GMT

   I once watched a program (probably on PBS) about something like this, and
they told how to make your own screens (maybe it was an article in the 
newspaper) using wood to make a frame, stapling some screen wire to it, and
then making another frame (same size, but not putting any screening on it). 
The one with the screening you placed so that the side with the screen faced
up, then you put the second one on top, then poured your blended-up paper onto
the screen (the top frame acts to keep the paper in a rectangular shape). 
When it dries, you can remove the upper frame and lift the sheet of paper off
the screen.  Then you're supposed to push it through a press (to get rid of
the water and to squash it), but I think an iron would work (maybe).  A local
artist makes paper this way and uses things like grass blades, leaves, and
twigs, plus making the paper into intersting shapes (using different shaped
frames) to turn it into artwork.  Here at home, we recycle all our paper, so
there hasn't been much reason to make paper out of our junk mail, but it might
be fun to try.  What size of paper could (the people who mentioned that they
bought something to help them make paper) make?  (P.S. it's a great project
for art classes, like in gradeschool or junior high.  We once used chopped up
construction paper of different colors to make our own sheets of multi-colored
paper using the above method.  Instead of using new construction paper, you
could just as easily use junk colored paper you've saved up from your junk
mail or from work or whatever.)
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   I once watched a program (probably on PBS) about something like this, and
they told how to make your own screens (maybe it was an article in the 
newspaper) using wood to make a frame, stapling some screen wire to it, and
then making another frame (same size, but not putting any screening on it). 
The one with the screening you placed so that the side with the screen faced
up, then you put the second one on top, then poured your blended-up paper onto
the screen (the top frame acts to keep the paper in a rectangular shape). 
When it dries, you can remove the upper frame and lift the sheet of paper off
the screen.  Then you're supposed to push it through a press (to get rid of
the water and to squash it), but I think an iron would work (maybe).  A local
artist makes paper this way and uses things like grass blades, leaves, and
twigs, plus making the paper into intersting shapes (using different shaped
frames) to turn it into artwork.  Here at home, we recycle all our paper, so
there hasn't been much reason to make paper out of our junk mail, but it might
be fun to try.  What size of paper could (the people who mentioned that they
bought something to help them make paper) make?  (P.S. it's a great project
for art classes, like in gradeschool or junior high.  We once used chopped up
construction paper of different colors to make our own sheets of multi-colored
paper using the above method.  Instead of using new construction paper, you
could just as easily use junk colored paper you've saved up from your junk
mail or from work or whatever.)

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