The invention of paper has become a sign for humanity. How to make it invented smart Chinese, from there, despite all precautions and secrets, the paper spread to all countries. Initially, she was only done manually, on the touch she was slightly rough, and the price is very expensive. With the emergence of the mass industry, the paper industry appeared, and Manufacturing paper manually became an interesting type of creativity.
Now designer hand-made paper is sold in many art stores and is used for various decorator crafts. There is such a lot of paper. At the same time, manifesting a little fantasy, desire, everyone can make several exclusive paper sheets for their needs for their needs, gift boxes and even wallpapers.
This requires minimum of materials and various accessories.
Need:
- Raw materials. It can be an office, newspaper, waste paper, toilet paper, cardboard, including corrugated cardboard or napkins. It is necessary to take into account that from old newspapers it turns out a grayish paper, and a beige corrugated cardboard. Sequins, dry flowers, chayans, different threads and fibers are used as decorative supplements for paper.
- Tools and materials. The tools use scissors, various spatulas, better rubber, pallet with a smooth surface, sponge and clean cloth with linen, smooth board or glass as the oppression.
Paper with your own hands
The procedure for making paper with their own hands is simple.
- Paper finely finely crushed, poured with hot water, practically boiling water, and is left as an hour with a little for swelling. The loose paper, the less time she needs to swell.
- After swelling the mass in it, a spoon of PVA glue is added, and a little starch is approximately around a teaspoon, and everything is thoroughly mixed for a porous state. Easy this process can be used by a mixer. If we want to get toned paper, we add to the mass any dye dissolving in water.
- The resulting, practically homogeneous cleaner lay out on an even tray or a conventional surface, covered with tissue. On top of the mass we produce leaf decoration, as we want. Uniform enclosures in paper can be obtained by adding a filler during its stirring.
- We close the surface of the mass, carefully collect the excess water with a sponge, we drag it with a towel and lay a stack of newspapers from above. We send paper to dry in a dark place, every day, change newspapers and towels, as wetting.
Depending on the texture of the fabric, the surface of the hand paper may be textured or smooth. The drying process can be accelerated if you gently dry the paper with an iron. The quality of the paper can also be increased if the process of mixing the raw materials can repeat several times. This paper turns out very beautiful panels, invitations, photo album pages.
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