How To Make Paper

What up guys! So today I'm going to show you how to make some paper.

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So what you're going to need is a mold and deckle, a blender, a bin to hold water, a rolling pin, a lil plastic sheet, some paper to recycle, and something to soak up water.. like paper towel (or sponge or shammy).

To make the mold and deckle I used two picture frames, two wooden dowels, a drill, a staple gun, and a screen. (I'm the worst tenant in the world and just used a screen from one of my windows)

Remove the prints from the picture frames. I actually made the print on recycle paper. So thats cool I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Take out the metal clips that hold in the picture.

If you do the next part where I drill holes to put the dowels in as little guides, you'll want to make sure the frames a wooden.

The dowels should fit snug in the deckle.. then make the holes a little wider in the mold so its not a tight fit.

After that cut out your screen to fit and staple on each side making sure the screen is fairly tight. Cut off the excess screen.

To make the pulp.. take the recyclable paper, tear it up, and put it in a blender with water. I got the blender from a thrift store.. cause I didn't want to ruin a nice blender.

Blend it up till its to a consistency where there aren't big chucks of solid paper...

If you want the paper all white you can filter out some of the stuff with just water and your mold. You can also wash the pulp with dish soap or laundry detergent. If you want to bleach paper you can also do that.. just be sure to rinse out all the bleach. The mold makes for a good strainer.

Once you have your pulp add it to a tub of water. The water need to be about 2x as deep as the mold and deckle is tall. That way, you can move the mold and deckle around freely and the pulp mixture will go on top. Pull up the mold and deckle and the water will strain out giving you a nice even layer of pulp.

[ Oh! You can also add shorting to the pulp water mixture for some sizing.. this will help the paper be nice and strong.. ]

take off the deckle and put a screen on top. That way when you dry the pulp.. it won't stick to the paper towel ( or what ever you are using to dry)

You'll see a little later in the video I figure out a better way to get the paper off the mold. You just hold the mold up side down with the screen on the bottom and blow off the paper.

Then put the plastic sheet on the paper side, remove the screen and add a paper towel and use a pin roller to get more water out and also that will shmoosh the paper agains the plastic sheet giving it a smooth side on one side.

I then went a little nuttso.. and tried adding a bunch of stuff to the pulp water mix.. like: Pressed flowers, felt, string, different colored pieces of paper, paint, copper flakes, sprinkles, pine needles, Christmas ornaments, candy, drugs, glitter, fish food, a taco, an iPhone, and oil..

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ soooo you guys could try to put what ever you want in the paper mix.. my favorites were honestly the strings and felt.

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Equipment:
I got most of the stuff from thrift stores and things just laying around my house this go around..
Plastic Bin ( my roommates drawers )
Blender
Rolling pin
plastic sheets ( I actually just used page protectors )
paper towels
sponge or shammy
(starch for sizing)
Mold and Deckle:
Screen (from one of my windows)
2 picture frames
wooden dowels
drill
staple gun
screen.
Music:
Tusken - Cloud 9
Pulsmu - Pine
CLVS - July

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