Nice work Jeff! I really like the mulberry, osage and milkweeds. Great tone, texture and color. Can you blog the process? Are you using a blender? Hand mallet? plaster or screen? etc. Thanks for sharing.
I wanted to tell you I hope you mend up well and soon. I was suprised you broke bone-damn. I hope the tets keep you occupied-gathering plant material miht be a bit difficult on crutches.
The process depends on the plant. Most of this is bast fiber (from the stem), but the thistle is made from the seed fluff. All have to be cooked in soda ash (alkaline) to break down the fibr from the plant. A blender is used to chop up the fiber a bit. Then put it in a vat and use deckle and mold (frame with screen) and frame on top to form the sheets.
1. For the Thistle Seed Fluff you just cook the fiber and then use a deckle and mold to form the sheets.
2. the osage and mulbery have to be steamed first andthe bark and fiber peelsed from the wood.
3. All the rest i boiled in the sodaash and then peeled and chopped in teh blender.
Ive been experimenting with all sorts of plants. many dont work too well.
Buk, thanks for asking, and Jeff, thanks for the info. I had introduced a coworker to the blog to impress her with my modeling work, but she was totally sidetracked and excited by the papermaking. I told her I would try to find out more about how you did it. What's this about a broken bone? Did I miss an article?
I fell on the ice and broke my ankle. I'm holed up at home but thinking of going to work part time.
Okay, I really should recommend some books on paper making. I got about 10 at the Topeka library, so I would assume all libraries will have books on paper making. There are mulitple ways of doing it, but i use the "western" method combined with the nepalese method. Helen Heibert has a couple books that are good. I'm actually thinking of writing my own book, as I test more plants for paper making qualities.
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Nice work Jeff! I really like the mulberry, osage and milkweeds. Great tone, texture and color. Can you blog the process? Are you using a blender? Hand mallet? plaster or screen? etc. Thanks for sharing.
I wanted to tell you I hope you mend up well and soon. I was suprised you broke bone-damn. I hope the tets keep you occupied-gathering plant material miht be a bit difficult on crutches.
The process depends on the plant. Most of this is bast fiber (from the stem), but the thistle is made from the seed fluff. All have to be cooked in soda ash (alkaline) to break down the fibr from the plant. A blender is used to chop up the fiber a bit. Then put it in a vat and use deckle and mold (frame with screen) and frame on top to form the sheets.
1. For the Thistle Seed Fluff you just cook the fiber and then use a deckle and mold to form the sheets.
2. the osage and mulbery have to be steamed first andthe bark and fiber peelsed from the wood.
3. All the rest i boiled in the sodaash and then peeled and chopped in teh blender.
Ive been experimenting with all sorts of plants. many dont work too well.
I will post more when I can.
Buk, thanks for asking, and Jeff, thanks for the info. I had introduced a coworker to the blog to impress her with my modeling work, but she was totally sidetracked and excited by the papermaking. I told her I would try to find out more about how you did it. What's this about a broken bone? Did I miss an article?
I fell on the ice and broke my ankle. I'm holed up at home but thinking of going to work part time.
Okay, I really should recommend some books on paper making. I got about 10 at the Topeka library, so I would assume all libraries will have books on paper making. There are mulitple ways of doing it, but i use the "western" method combined with the nepalese method. Helen Heibert has a couple books that are good. I'm actually thinking of writing my own book, as I test more plants for paper making qualities.
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