Paper making

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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

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Looking for a fun project to get into? Look no further than making your own paper clay! Not only is it a great material to work with for Christmas crafts, but you won’t believe what this clay…

The delicate, translucent edible sugar glass is decorated with a variety of colorful and fragrant dried edible flowers, creating a beautiful and vivid spring theme. This delicious and visually stunning recipe only takes 4 simple ingredients to easily recreate at home.

So...how exactly does one go about making handmade paper? Take a look at this illustrated summary of the hand papermaking process. Though not quite a tutorial, the hope is that you'll gain a sense of how hand papermakers, paper artists, and yes, how you too can create paper out of cloth rags, plan

Make handmade paper on the cheap! You may have seen our tutorial on making blender paper from junk mail and scrap papers . Well, here's instructions on how to make a mould and deckle -- it's an essential piece of equipment for the hand papermaking process. Of course, if you’re a

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Making paper teaches children how one of our most ubiquitous materials -- PAPER -- is made, and it's also a fun sensory project for kids of all ages.

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In this blog post I’ll show you how to dye paper with homemade plant dyes. The pink dye is made from avocado skins and the yellow is from pomegranate skins. With just a few tweaks to my usual fabric dyeing method, we can easily dye paper. Can you see the patterns on the pink paper?...