Papermaking

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Supplies

Personal materials

  • Be Prepared to get wet.
  • Wear shoes with non-slip soles
  • scissors
  • string
  • masking tape
  • shop apron (or work clothes)
  • x-acto knife 
  • utility knife  
  • Post-It Notes 
  • Rubber Gloves 
  • Possibly some purchased  papers
  • Ear Plugs

Provided Workshop supplies for Oriental Papers

  • Soda Ash (used to balance pH of pool water)
  • Wooden Spoon to stir
  • Enamel or Stainless Steel cooking pot
  • Burner
  • 5 or 3 gallon buckets
  • Molds and Deckles  Pounding/Beating Sticks or Mallets

Provided Workshop supplies for Western Paper

  • Recycled Paper Scraps
  • Cotton Linters
  • Any fiber called "Half Stuff"
  • ...can be flax. Cotton Rag. Sisal. Abaca... 
  • ...means pre-beaten and cooked: Hydratable in Blender.
  • Kitchen Blender
  • 5 or 3 gallon buckets
  • Straining Socks 

General

  • Mortar Mixing Tubs
  • Papermaking Screens and Deckles (screen Lee S. McDonald) 
  • Felts (Army/ Navy Blanket  and Interfacing Material)
  • Newspaper
  • Sponges
  • Squeeze Water Cups
  • Aqueous Dispersed Pigments  Paint strainer sock

 

   

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